{"id":5768,"date":"2018-03-29T07:55:20","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T13:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregsowell.com\/?p=5768"},"modified":"2018-03-29T07:55:20","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T13:55:20","slug":"pre-mikrotik-routeros-v6-38-5-exploit-in-the-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/?p=5768","title":{"rendered":"Pre Mikrotik RouterOS v6.38.5 Exploit In The Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mikrotik released the following information:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>It has come to our attention that a rogue botnet is currently scanning random public IP addresses to find open Winbox (8291) and WWW (80) ports, to exploit a vulnerability in the RouterOS www server that was patched more than a year ago (in RouterOS v6.38.5, march 2017).<\/p>\n<p>Since all RouterOS devices offer free upgrades with just two clicks, we urge you to upgrade your devices with the &#8220;Check for updates&#8221; button, if you haven&#8217;t done so within the last year.<\/p>\n<p>More information can be found here: <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.mikrotik.com\/viewtopic.php?f=21&#038;t=132499\">https:\/\/forum.mikrotik.com\/viewtopic.php?f=21&#038;t=132499<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Best regards,<br \/>\nMikroTik<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got confirmation from users that they currently have routers in the wild being exploited!  I&#8217;m told the only fix for these routers is to immediately update the firmware.  In the meantime block port 80(web) and 8291(winbox) to your customer routers.<\/p>\n<p>Greg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mikrotik released the following information: Hello, It has come to our attention that a rogue botnet is currently scanning random public IP addresses to\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mikrotik"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5769,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5768\/revisions\/5769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}