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CVE-2021-28506

CRITICAL severity · CVSS 9.1 · CWE-285
9.1CVSS CRITICAL

Summary

An issue has recently been discovered in Arista EOS where certain gNOI APIs incorrectly skip authorization and authentication which could potentially allow a factory reset of the device.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)1%

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

Affected products we track (1)

EOS

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Official patch: https://www.arista.com/en/support/advisories-notices/security-advisories/13449-security-advisory-0071 ↗