CVE-2023-24509

Summary

CVECVE-2023-24509
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-04-13 20:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-04-25 14:19:00 UTC
DescriptionOn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Hardware Arista 704x3 - All All All
Hardware Arista 7304x - All All All
Hardware Arista 7304x3 - All All All
Hardware Arista 7308x - All All All
Hardware Arista 7316x - All All All
Hardware Arista 7324x - All All All
Hardware Arista 7328x - All All All
Hardware Arista 7504r - All All All
Hardware Arista 7504r3 - All All All
Hardware Arista 7508r - All All All
Hardware Arista 7508r3 - All All All
Hardware Arista 7512r - All All All
Hardware Arista 7512r3 - All All All
Hardware Arista 7516r - All All All
Hardware Arista 755x - All All All
Hardware Arista 758x - All All All
Hardware Arista 7804r3 - All All All
Hardware Arista 7808r3 - All All All
Hardware Arista 7812r3 - All All All
Hardware Arista 7816r3 - All All All
Operating System Arista Eos All All All All
Operating System Arista Eos All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Security Advisory 0082 - Arista MISC www.arista.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: Arista would like to acknowledge and thank Marc-André Labonté, Senior Information Security Analyst at Desjardins for responsibly reporting CVE-2023-24509.

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 43996 Arista EOS Improper Privilege Management Vulnerability (SA0082)
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