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CVE-2021-28500

CRITICAL
9.1CVSS
Published: 2022-01-14
Updated: 2024-11-21
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Description

An issue has recently been discovered in Arista EOS where the incorrect use of EOS's AAA API’s by the OpenConfig and TerminAttr agents could result in unrestricted access to the device for local users with nopassword configuration.

CVSS Metrics

Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector
network
Complexity
low
Privileges
none
User Action
none
Scope
unchanged
Confidentiality
none
Integrity
high
Availability
high
Weaknesses
CWE-285NVD-CWE-Other

Metadata

Primary Vendor
ARISTA
Published
1/14/2022
Last Modified
11/21/2024
Source
NIST NVD
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Affected Products

arista : eosarista : eosarista : eosarista : eosarista : eosarista : eosarista : eos

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