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Severity
9.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

An issue has recently been discovered in Arista EOS where the incorrect use of EOS's AAA API’s by the OpenConfig and TerminAttr agents could result in unrestricted access to the device for local users with nopassword configuration.

Remedy

The recommended resolution is to upgrade to a remediated software version at your earliest convenience. Artista recommends customers move to the latest version of each release that contains all the fixes listed below. CVE-2021-28500 has been fixed in the following releases: 4.26.2F and later releases in the 4.26.x train 4.25.5M and later releases in the 4.25.x train 4.25.4.1M and later releases in the 4.25.4.x train 4.24.7M and later releases in the 4.24.x train 4.23.9M and later releases in the 4.23.x train 4.22.12M and later releases in the 4.22.x train 4.21.15M and later releases in the 4.21.x train
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Severity
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

An issue was found in Arista EOS. Specific malformed ARP packets can impact the software forwarding of VxLAN packets. This issue is found in Arista’s EOS VxLAN code, which can allow attackers to crash the VxlanSwFwd agent. This affects EOS 4.21.8M and below releases in the 4.21.x train, 4.22.3M and below releases in the 4.22.x train, 4.23.1F and below releases in the 4.23.x train, and all releases in 4.15, 4.16, 4.17, 4.18, 4.19, 4.20 code train.

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