vulnerability

Security Advisory 0082

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Feb 14, 2023
Added
Sep 4, 2024
Modified
Jan 14, 2026

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.

Solution

upgrade-solution-cve-2023-24509
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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