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MikroTik patches flaws currently being exploited to take over routers
Networking gear manufacturer MikroTik has released patches for six vulnerabilities in its RouterOS firmware, two of which can be chained together to take over devices without authentication over SSH.
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Networking gear manufacturer MikroTik has released patches for six vulnerabilities in its RouterOS firmware, two of which can be chained together to take over devices without authentication over SSH. The exploit chain, dubbed MikroTrick, is already being used by attackers in the wild. The vulnerabilities , found by researchers from the CERT Polska, are located in various firmware components, including the SSH server and client, the bandwidth-test service, the X.509 certificate handling code, and the WebFig interface.
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