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CVE-2024-4578

Published: Jun 27, 2024

Modified: Aug 1, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

8.4

HIGH

Description

This Advisory describes an issue that impacts Arista Wireless Access Points. Any entity with the ability to authenticate via SSH to an affected AP as the “config” user is able to cause a privilege escalation via spawning a bash shell. The SSH CLI session does not require high permissions to exploit this vulnerability, but the config password is required to establish the session. The spawned shell is able to obtain root privileges.

VendorProductVersions

Arista Networks

Arista Wireless Access Points

affected
13.0.2.x - <= 13.0.2-28-vv1002
affected
15.x
affected
16.x - <= 16.1.051-vv6

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-77

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

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

Attack Vector

Adjacent

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

High

User Interaction

None

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

References

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