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🛡️ CVE-2026-16347

🟠 CVSS 8.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-307 NVD
8.8
CVSS Score
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Description

MikroTik RouterOS contains a weakness in its API authentication handling that lacks effective safeguards against excessive login attempts. The system does not enforce meaningful rate-limiting, account lockout, or source-based restrictions, allowing repeated authentication failures to proceed without defensive response. In some versions, a fixed per-connection delay is present, but it can be bypassed through concurrent sessions, resulting in continued high-volume attempts. This deficiency increases the risk that an attacker could eventually obtain valid credentials and gain unauthorized access to administrative services.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached from an adjacent network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

  • Attack vector: Adjacent network — the attacker has to sit on the same local or logical network.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-16347 is classified as CWE-307: Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts. Repeated login attempts are not limited, leaving credentials open to brute forcing.

Affected software

CVE-2026-16347 is recorded against 1 package.

  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 28 July 2026 and last revised on 30 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

www.cisa.gov

Other advisories for this package

unknown has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-307: Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts) in other software:

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-307
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-07-28
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-07-30
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
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