Vulnerability · Published Jun 27, 2024 · Assigned by Arista
CVE-2024-4578Privilege escalation in Arista Wireless Access Points
High 8.4
In plain English
A high-severity command injection in Arista Wireless Access Points from Arista Networks. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 42% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official 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.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Arista Networks | Arista Wireless Access Points | 13.0.2.x – through 13.0.2-28-vv100215.x16.x – through 16.1.051-vv6 |
Weakness: CWE-77 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H