CVE-2021-28506
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-01-14 19:04
Modified
2024-09-16 22:09
Severity ?
9.1 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
Summary
An issue has recently been discovered in Arista EOS where certain gNOI APIs incorrectly skip authorization and authentication which could potentially allow a factory reset of the device.
References
psirt@arista.comhttps://www.arista.com/en/support/advisories-notices/security-advisories/13449-security-advisory-0071Exploit, Mitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.arista.com/en/support/advisories-notices/security-advisories/13449-security-advisory-0071Exploit, Mitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory
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