CVE-2018-14847

CRITICALNVD 9.19.1
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

Score elevated to 9.1 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2021-12-01), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 9.1 retained for reference. Confidence: HIGH.

Triggered by: CISA KEV (actively exploited)
Sources: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 3 sources updated this weekExploited in the wild

Also known asEUVD-2018-6729 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-j583-4cfp-xf9m (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.1EG
EchelonGraph verdictMitigate nowTreat as an emergency — this is being exploited.
  • Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV) — the reason this is sooner than the SSVC decision on this page at low mission impact
CISA-KEV: ExploitedEPSS PROB: 96%CVSS: 9.1Exploit: Metasploit · other public PoCExposed services: Not assessed

No fix has been recorded since the CVE record was published in 2018 — use a compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and check the vendor's advisory.

The CVE record's description, written by its CNA (MITRE Corporation), states the affected versions: "MikroTik RouterOS through 6.42 allows unauthenticated remote attackers to read arbitrary files and remote authenticated attackers to write arbitrary files due to a directory traversal vulnerability in the WinBox interfa…" No release containing a fix is confirmed on record.

MikroTik RouterOS through 6.42 allows unauthenticated remote attackers to read arbitrary files and remote authenticated attackers to write arbitrary files due to a directory traversal vulnerability in the WinBox interface.

CVSS v3
9.1
EG Score
9.1CRITICALhigh confidence
EG Risk
96
EG Risk 96/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity91% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.1 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation100% × 40%
Fixed at 100% for a CISA KEV listing: EchelonGraph's rule.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Attend at low mission impact; Act at medium or high.
Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: No fix has been recorded since the CVE record was published in 2018. Check the vendor's advisory for a fixed release; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation sooner than your normal schedule at low mission impact and as soon as possible at medium or high.
EPSS PROB
96%
EPSS %ILE
99th
KEV
⚠ Exploited

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.1): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.1 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.1 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
96% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-31). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
CISA KEV and EG-KEV Tier 1 (exploited in the wild)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Act at medium mission impactAttend at low mission impact; Act at medium or high.CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 3 days & forensic triage if it is not.No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: this CVE is in CISA's KEV catalog, and CISA's required action for it, quoted below, applies whether or not a fix is released.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Attend at low mission impact; Act at medium or high.

No fix has been recorded since the CVE record was published in 2018. Check the vendor's advisory for a fixed release; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation sooner than your normal schedule at low mission impact and as soon as possible at medium or high.

Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 3 days & forensic triage if it is not.

No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: this CVE is in CISA's KEV catalog, and CISA's required action for it, quoted below, applies whether or not a fix is released.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV yes (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

CISA required action“Apply updates per vendor instructions.”

Quoted verbatim from CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. CISA directs it at US federal civilian executive branch agencies under Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04, which replaced BOD 22-01 on 10 June 2026; it is not EchelonGraph's advice. CISA's notes: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-14847

Published

August 2, 2018

Last Modified

November 7, 2025

Advisory Details (7)

Auto-updated Oct 26, 2026
⚠️ Actively exploited (CISA KEV, CISA Vulnrichment). No fix on record since 2018.
Web page🟡 PoC Available

GitHub - BigNerd95/WinboxExploit: Proof of Concept of Winbox Critical Vulnerability · GitHub

https://github.com/BigNerd95/WinboxExploit
Web page🟡 PoC Available

GitHub - BasuCert/WinboxPoC: Proof of Concept of Winbox Critical Vulnerability (CVE-2018-14847) · GitHub

https://github.com/BasuCert/WinboxPoC
Web page

MicroTik RouterOS < 6.43rc3 - Remote Root - Hardware remote Exploit

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45578/
Web page

https://blog.n0p.me/2018/05/2018-05-21-winbox-bug-dissection/

https://n0p.me/winbox-bug-dissection/
Web page

MikroTik · Winbox vulnerability

https://mikrotik.com/supportsec/winbox-vulnerability
Web page🟡 PoC Available

routeros/poc/cve_2018_14847 at master · tenable/routeros · GitHub

https://github.com/tenable/routeros/tree/master/poc/cve_2018_14847
Web page

routeros/poc/bytheway at master · tenable/routeros · GitHub

https://github.com/tenable/routeros/tree/master/poc/bytheway

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 13× in last 7d / 107× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 1,047 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 947 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

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Publicly available exploits

(11 references, 10 shown)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 Metasploit module, 1 Exploit-DB entry, 9 GitHub PoCs). No fix has been recorded since the CVE record was published in 2018. If the vendor still supports the product, apply the fixed version it names; if it no longer does, isolate the affected system.

  • Metasploitauxiliary/gather/mikrotik_winbox_fileread✓ verified
    Published Nov 5, 2020

    Mikrotik Winbox Arbitrary File Read

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCK3ysTr0K3R/CVE-2018-14847-EXPLOIT
    Published Apr 22, 2024

    A PoC exploit for CVE-2018-14847 - MikroTik WinBox File Read

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCbabyshen/routeros-CVE-2018-14847-bytheway
    Published Oct 31, 2022

    By the Way is an exploit that enables a root shell on Mikrotik devices running RouterOS versions:

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoChacker30468/Mikrotik-router-hack
    Published Apr 21, 2021

    This is a proof of concept of the critical WinBox vulnerability (CVE-2018-14847) which allows for arbitrary file read of plain text passwords. The vulnerability has long since been fixed, so this project has ended and will not be supported or updated anymore. You can fork it and update it yourself instead.

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCsinichi449/Python-MikrotikLoginExploit
    Published Sep 29, 2019

    PoC of CVE-2018-14847 Mikrotik Vulnerability using simple script

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCmahmoodsabir/mikrotik-beast
    Published May 26, 2019

    Mass MikroTik WinBox Exploitation tool, CVE-2018-14847

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCjas502n/CVE-2018-14847
    Published Dec 15, 2018

    MikroTik RouterOS Winbox未经身份验证的任意文件读/写漏洞

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCsyrex1013/MikroRoot
    Published Oct 13, 2018

    Automated version of CVE-2018-14847 (MikroTik Exploit)

    Open source ↗
  • Exploit-DBEDB-45578
    Published Oct 10, 2018

    MicroTik RouterOS < 6.43rc3 - Remote Root

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCmsterusky/WinboxExploit
    Published Sep 11, 2018

    C# implementation of BasuCert/WinboxPoC [Winbox Critical Vulnerability (CVE-2018-14847)]

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(6)

What is CVE-2018-14847?
CVE-2018-14847 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on August 2, 2018. MikroTik RouterOS through 6.42 allows unauthenticated remote attackers to read arbitrary files and remote authenticated attackers to write arbitrary files due to a directory traversal vulnerability in the WinBox interface.
When was CVE-2018-14847 made public?
CVE-2018-14847 was made public on August 2, 2018: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, MITRE Corporation, gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on August 2, 2018. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of November 7, 2025; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2018-14847 actively exploited?
Yes. CISA added CVE-2018-14847 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on December 1, 2021, affecting MikroTik RouterOS. KEV listing indicates confirmed exploitation in the wild; this CVE warrants immediate attention. No fix has been recorded since the CVE record was published in 2018. Check the vendor's advisory for a fixed release; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2018-14847?
CVE-2018-14847 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.1 (NVD).
Which products are affected by CVE-2018-14847?
CVE-2018-14847 affects MikroTik RouterOS.
How do I remediate CVE-2018-14847?
No fix for CVE-2018-14847 has been recorded since its CVE record was published in 2018. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation — for example, keep it off the internet or limit it to trusted networks — and check the vendor's advisory for a fix. The CVE record's description, written by its CNA (MITRE Corporation), states the affected versions: "MikroTik RouterOS through 6.42 allows unauthenticated remote attackers to read arbitrary files and remote authenticated attackers to write arbitrary files due to a directory traversal vulnerability in the WinBox interfa…" No release containing a fix is confirmed on record.

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