CVE-2021-28507

An issue has recently been discovered in Arista EOS where, under certain conditions, the service ACL configured for OpenConfig gNOI and OpenConfig RESTCONF might be bypassed, which results in the denied requests being forwarded to the agent.

Published Jan 14, 2022 CVSS 3.1 · 5.5 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
An issue has recently been discovered in Arista EOS where, under certain conditions, the service ACL configured for OpenConfig gNOI and OpenConfig RESTCONF might be bypassed, which results in the denied requests being forwarded to the agent.

Remediation

Vendor Solution

The recommended resolution is to upgrade to a remediated software version at your earliest convenience. Arista recommends customers move to the latest version of each release. CVE-2021-28507 has been fixed in the following releases: 4.26.3M and later releases in the 4.26.x train 4.25.6M and later releases in the 4.25.x train 4.25.4.1M and later releases in the 4.25.4.x train 4.24.8M and later releases in the 4.24.x train 4.23.10M and later releases in the 4.23.x train


Vendor Workaround

On the affected versions, all vulnerabilities can be mitigated by disabling OpenConfig gNMI/gNOI and OpenConfig RESTCONF and TerminAttr. If use of these agents is required, a hotfix employing a proxy service can be deployed.

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-15183 An issue has recently been discovered in Arista EOS where, under certain conditions, the service ACL configured for OpenConfig gNOI and OpenConfig RESTCONF might be bypassed, which results in the denied requests being forwarded to the agent.
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00102}

epss

{'score': 0.00141}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
Arista
Published
Updated
Sep 17, 2024, 4:20 AM
Reserved
Mar 16, 2021, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Jan 14, 2022, 8:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 3:46 AM