cve-2021-28501
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-01-14 19:04
Modified
2024-09-17 03:43
Severity ?
9.1 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
Summary
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.
References
psirt@arista.comhttps://www.arista.com/en/support/advisories-notices/security-advisories/13449-security-advisory-0071Exploit, Mitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.arista.com/en/support/advisories-notices/security-advisories/13449-security-advisory-0071Exploit, Mitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Arista Networks Terminattr Version: 1.16.2 0
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