CVE-2017-17538
A public proof of concept exists; no exploitation attested.
- Published2017-12-13
Am I affected?
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Description
MikroTik v6.40.5 devices allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a flood of ICMP packets.
Timeline
dates in UTC- 2017-12-1309:29CVE publishedNVD
Observed activity
isMalicious corpus · updated 2026-10-23 18:48 UTCBlock these indicators
- Firewall list (EDL, text): https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2017-17538?format=txt
- CSV export: https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2017-17538?format=csv
- TAXII collection of exploited CVEs
- The EDL and CSV take an API key on the Pro plan.
Versions per branch
NVD| Branch | Affected | Fixed in | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.40 | = 6.40.5 | no fix published | NVD |
as publishedRanges as NVD and OSV publish them; a distribution’s build can be fixed under an older number.
Fix
No fix published by the sources we read yet. NVD record
Detection
read 2026-10-23 19:23 UTC- Nuclei template
- none so far ProjectDiscovery
- Proof-of-concept repositories
- none listed PoC-in-GitHub
Sources
- NVDCVSS 3.07.5read 2026-10-23
- NVDCVSS 2.07.8read 2026-10-23
- FIRST EPSSEPSS score7.8 %2026-10-22
- Exploit-DBdetectionread 2026-10-23
Technical details
- CVSS v3 Vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Published
- 2017-12-13
- Last Modified
- 2026-06-17
- NVD status
- Modified
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