CVE-2025-6978 (GCVE-0-2025-6978)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-23 18:50 – Updated: 2025-10-23 18:58
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Summary
Diagnostics command injection vulnerability
Severity ?
7.2 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-78 - Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Arista Networks Arista Edge Threat Management - Arista Next Generation Firewall Affected: 0.0 , ≤ 17.3.1 (custom)
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Credits
Arista would like to acknowledge and thank Gereon Huppertz working with Trend Zero Day Initiative for reporting CVE-2025-6978
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