AI Helps Uncover the MikroTrick Attack Chain in MikroTik RouterOS
CERT Polska identified two chainable vulnerabilities in MikroTik RouterOS, referred to as MikroTrick. CVE-2026-67279 allowed an unauthenticated client to create a session channel, while CVE-2026-86060 allowed control of the privilege mask supplied to the login process, potentially giving an attacker full administrative access without a password, SSH key, or successful authentication. According to the source, the attack chain was used in the wild before patches were released.
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