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CVE-2023-24509

Published: Apr 13, 2023

Modified: Feb 7, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

9.3

CRITICAL

Description

On affected modular platforms running Arista EOS equipped with both redundant supervisor modules and having the redundancy protocol configured with RPR or SSO, an existing unprivileged user can login to the standby supervisor as a root user, leading to a privilege escalation. Valid user credentials are required in order to exploit this vulnerability.

VendorProductVersions

Arista Networks

Arista EOS

affected
4.23.0 4.23.13M
affected
4.28.0 - <= 4.28.3M
affected
4.27.0 - <= 4.27.6M
affected
4.286.0 - <= 4.26.8M
affected
4.25.0 - <= 4.25.9M

+1 more versions

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-269

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

References

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