MikroTik WinBox before 3.21 is vulnerable to a path traversal vulnerability that allows creation of arbitrary files wherevere WinBox has write permissions. WinBox is vulnerable to this attack if it connects to a malicious endpoint or if an attacker mounts a man in the middle attack.

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-5720
• https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2020-07