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CVE-2023-24509

CRITICAL severity · CVSS 9.3 · Improper privilege management
9.3CVSS CRITICAL

Summary

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.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)0%

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