CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-28496

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2021-10-21 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-10-21
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-311, CWE-522

Description

On systems running Arista EOS and CloudEOS with the affected release version, when using shared secret profiles the password configured for use by BiDirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) will be leaked when displaying output over eAPI or other JSON outputs to other authenticated users on the device. The affected EOS Versions are: all releases in 4.22.x train, 4.23.9 and below releases in the 4.23.x train, 4.24.7 and below releases in the 4.24.x train, 4.25.4 and below releases in the 4.25.x train, 4.26.1 and below releases in the 4.26.x train

Affected configurations

• arista eos (>= 4.22 <= 4.22.7m) • arista eos (>= 4.23 < 4.23.10) • arista eos (>= 4.24 < 4.24.8) • arista eos (>= 4.25 < 4.25.5) • arista eos (>= 4.26 < 4.26.2)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-311 Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data weakness
  • CWE-522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials weakness

References