CVE-2020-20212 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Mikrotik RouterOs 6.44.5 (long-term tree) suffers from a memory corruption vulnerability in the /nova/bin/console process. An authenticated remote attacker can cause a Denial of Service (NULL pointer dereference).

Published: 2021-07-07

Score: 6.5 Medium

EPSS: 1.9% Low

KEV: No

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:mikrotik:routeros:6.44.5:*:*:*:ltr:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2020-12999	Mikrotik RouterOs 6.44.5 (long-term tree) suffers from a memory corruption vulnerability in the /nova/bin/console process. An authenticated remote attacker can cause a Denial of Service (NULL pointer dereference).

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication Single

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01881.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/May/0
https://mikrotik.com/
https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Apr/7
https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Jan/12

History

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 20:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
References		https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Apr/7 https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Jan/12

Subscriptions

Mikrotik Routeros

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2021-07-07T13:27:27.000Z

Updated: 2026-09-16T20:24:38.630Z

Reserved: 2020-08-13T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-20212

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-07-07T14:15:09.353

Modified: 2026-09-16T21:17:05.777

Link: CVE-2020-20212

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-476

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