Denial of Service Vulnerability in MikroTik Version 6.38.5 via UDP Flood on Port 500

CVE-2017-8338 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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.

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