Arista Wireless Access Point up to 13.0.2-28-vv1002/15.x/16.1.051-vv6 SSH command injection

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A vulnerability has been found in Arista Wireless Access Point up to 13.0.2-28-vv1002/15.x/16.1.051-vv6 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component SSH. Performing a manipulation results in command injection. This vulnerability was named CVE-2024-4578. The attack needs to be approached within the local network. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability was found in Arista Wireless Access Point up to 13.0.2-28-vv1002/15.x/16.1.051-vv6. It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown part of the component SSH. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a command injection vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-77. The product constructs all or part of a command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended command when it is sent to a downstream component. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

This Advisory describes an issue that impacts Arista Wireless Access Points. Any entity with the ability to authenticate via SSH to an affected AP as the “config” user is able to cause a privilege escalation via spawning a bash shell. The SSH CLI session does not require high permissions to exploit this vulnerability, but the config password is required to establish the session. The spawned shell is able to obtain root privileges.

The weakness was presented by David Miller. The advisory is shared at arista.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-4578 since 05/06/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. The attack needs to be done within the local network. Additional levels of successful authentication are necessary for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 06/27/2024). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1202 for this issue.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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Type

• Wireless LAN Software

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• Arista

Name

• Wireless Access Point

Version

• 13.0.2-28-vv1002
• 15.x
• 16.1.051-vv6

License

• commercial

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