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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD8.4 High

CVE-2024-4578

Privilege escalation in Arista Wireless Access Points

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
Arista

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

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Arista Networks Arista Wireless Access Points

Default version status: unaffected

  • 13.0.2.x to ≤ 13.0.2-28-vv1002affected
  • 15.xaffected
  • 16.x to ≤ 16.1.051-vv6affected

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