Shame.

My experience with Mikrotik was poor and I don't use or recommend them to anyone, but I still hope to see them continue to improve and be very successful.

What was your issue with them? Genuinely curious. My experience has been the opposite.

Also, in general (not directed to the person I'm replying to) the web management interface being exposed to the Internet, which is where this vulnerability lies, is poor cyber practice. You should NEVER expose a management interface to the Internet.

You should NEVER expose a management interface to the Internet.

Yep. That's a "stop hitting yourself" level of easily-preventable abject stupidity.

That would be fair if this was something people had to enable consciously.

In context, I think it’s pretty victim-blamey to assume people should know 1) the default services running on their router are insecure and 2) that the web config interface is exposed publicly OOTB, instead of only to their LAN.

This is a huge fuckup by Mikrotik, not the users.

E: Checking the docs, I think I was wrong that it’s enabled publicly OOTB. I tried hitting my own router earlier from public IP and it looked like it was getting through, but maybe the traffic was getting bridged automatically.

Yeah no, the same was said about the previous vulnerability in the SSH server. News stories just assume when people run an unpatched version they are vulnerable from attacks from the internet and run with those numbers. It makes for a better story, but it isn't the whole truth. OOTB these kinds of things aren't exposed to the outside world and exposing them isn't trivial.

People should still patch and these vulnerabilities aren't a good thing obviously, but the news stories have been pretty sensational for something that probably won't impact a lot of users.

Wasn't going off the article: I saw the SSH stuff last month and had double-checked I had all remote-access off on my config.

Then when I saw the latest story this morning, I ran an nmap that showed webfig was still exposed on my pub IP. Probably just due to some automatic bridging behavior that bit me, but I'll have to confirm later.

I know, the articles just annoy me. I use a lot of Mikrotik stuff and it's great. Then you get these MILLIONS OF USERS VULNERABLE!!!! bullshit stories and it pisses me off.

Idk, microtiks are pretty prosumer, not at all plug and play. Configuring one is a complex task already, people that have that level of skill should absolutely know not to go doing silly things...