CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-24509
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-04-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.3 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-269
Description
On 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.
Affected configurations
• arista eos (>= 4.23 <= 4.23.13m)
• arista eos (>= 4.24.0 < 4.24.11m)
• arista eos (>= 4.25.0 < 4.25.10m)
• arista eos (>= 4.26.0 < 4.26.9m)
• arista eos (>= 4.27.0 < 4.27.7m)
• arista eos (>= 4.28.0 < 4.28.4m)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness
References
- https://www.arista.com/en/support/advisories-notices/security-advisory/16985-security-advisory-0082 Exploit, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.arista.com/en/support/advisories-notices/security-advisory/16985-security-advisory-0082 Exploit, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory