CVE-2017-8338

PoC ×4—

CVSS 3.0

7.5 high

EPSS

4%p90

Published

May 18, 2017 (May 18, 2017)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

A vulnerability in MikroTik Version 6.38.5 could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to exhaust all available CPU via a flood of UDP packets on port 500 (used for L2TP over IPsec), preventing the affected router from accepting new connections; all devices will be disconnected from the router and all logs removed automatically.

Vendors: mikrotik
Products: routeros
Weakness: CWE-400
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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