Rapid7

vulnerability

security-advisory-0072

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Feb 2, 2022
Added
Sep 4, 2024
Modified
Jan 14, 2026

Description

This advisory documents the impact of an internally found vulnerability in Arista's EOS software. The impact of this vulnerability is that eAPI may skip re-evaluating user credentials when certificate based authentication is used, which allows remote attackers to access the device via eAPI. This issue was discovered internally and Arista is not aware of any malicious uses of this issue in customer networks.

Solution

upgrade-solution-cve-2021-28503
Title
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