Is CVE-2020-20230 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2020-20230 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2020-20230?

CVE-2020-20230 has a CVSS v3 base score of 6.5 (MEDIUM).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2020-20230?

CVE-2020-20230 has an EPSS score of 1.94% (78th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2020-20230?

Upgrade routeros to 6.47 or later.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2020-20230

MEDIUMEPSS 78th pctl

6.5

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

Mikrotik RouterOs before stable 6.47 suffers from an uncontrolled resource consumption in the sshd process. An authenticated remote attacker can cause a Denial of Service due to overloading the systems CPU.

CWE-400Resource Exhaustion

How to fix

Remediation Available

routerosNVD

Affected:< 6.47Fixed in:6.47CVE-2020-20230derived from NVD

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorNetwork

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredLow

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityNone

IntegrityNone

AvailabilityHigh

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploit Intelligence

1.94%probability of exploitation in 30 days

78thpercentile

Elevated risk: more likely to be exploited than 78% of all known CVEs.

References

Exploit1

github.com

Technical Description1

cwe.mitre.org

Related Vulnerabilities

Other CWE-400 (Resource Exhaustion) vulnerabilities, ordered by exploit likelihood. View all

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CVE-2023-44487	High	7.5	100%	KEV	Fix
CVE-2021-44228	Critical	10.0	100%	KEV + Ransom	Fix
CVE-2011-3192	High	7.8	99%	-	Fix
CVE-2019-11478	Medium	5.3	95%	-	Fix
CVE-2024-25617	Medium	5.3	89%	-	Fix
CVE-2018-1000115	High	7.5	89%	-	Fix

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2024-11-21.