Arista EOS up to 4.15 access control

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A vulnerability categorized as critical has been discovered in Arista EOS up to 4.11.11/4.12.10/4.13.13/4.14.5/4.15. Affected is an unknown function. Executing a manipulation can lead to access control. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2015-8236. There is not any exploit available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability has been found in Arista EOS up to 4.11.11/4.12.10/4.13.13/4.14.5/4.15 and classified as very critical. This vulnerability affects an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-264. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Arista EOS before 4.11.12, 4.12 before 4.12.11, 4.13 before 4.13.14M, 4.14 before 4.14.5FX.5, and 4.15 before 4.15.0FX1.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code as root by leveraging management-plane access, aka Bug 138716.

The weakness was released 11/19/2015 as 138716 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at arista.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2015-8236 since 11/18/2015. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 04/13/2018). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• Arista

Name

• EOS

Version

• 4.0
• 4.1
• 4.2
• 4.3
• 4.4
• 4.5
• 4.6
• 4.7
• 4.8
• 4.9
• 4.10
• 4.11
• 4.11.0
• 4.11.1
• 4.11.2
• 4.11.3
• 4.11.4
• 4.11.5
• 4.11.6
• 4.11.7
• 4.11.8
• 4.11.9
• 4.11.10
• 4.11.11
• 4.12
• 4.12.0
• 4.12.1
• 4.12.2
• 4.12.3
• 4.12.4
• 4.12.5
• 4.12.6
• 4.12.7
• 4.12.8
• 4.12.9
• 4.12.10
• 4.13
• 4.13.0
• 4.13.1
• 4.13.2
• 4.13.3
• 4.13.4
• 4.13.5
• 4.13.6
• 4.13.7
• 4.13.8
• 4.13.9
• 4.13.10
• 4.13.11
• 4.13.12
• 4.13.13
• 4.14
• 4.14.0
• 4.14.1
• 4.14.2
• 4.14.3
• 4.14.4
• 4.14.5
• 4.15

License

• commercial

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