This security advisory documents a vulnerability in Arista EOS for customers using Telnet in their management plane. The vulnerability in the telnet server (telnetd) can lead to arbitrary remote code execution by an unauthenticated attacker. The exposure is limited to systems with the telnetd service explicitly enabled.
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