CVE-2024-4578

Privilege escalation in Arista Wireless Access Points

Published Jun 27, 2024 CVSS 3.1 · 8.4 High EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
This Advisory describes an issue that impacts Arista Wireless Access Points. Any entity with the ability to authenticate via SSH to an affected AP as the “config” user is able to cause a privilege escalation via spawning a bash shell. The SSH CLI session does not require high permissions to exploit this vulnerability, but the config password is required to establish the session. The spawned shell is able to obtain root privileges.

Remediation

Vendor Solution

Arista recommends customers move to the latest version of each release that contains all the fixes listed below: CVE-2024-4578 has been fixed in the 13.x and 16.x release trains, as follows: * 13.0.2-28-vv1101 and later releases in the 13.0.2.x train * 16.1.0-51-vv703 and later releases in the 16.1.0.x train For more information about upgrading WiFi AP Software, please see Upgrade Server https://wifihelp.arista.com/post/upgrade-server  and Upgrading Firmware of Wi-Fi Access Points with On-Premises Wireless Manager https://wifihelp.arista.com/post/upgrading-firmware-of-wifi-access-points-with-on-premises-wireless-manager


Vendor Workaround

To mitigate the attack, configure a strong config shell password and share the password only with admin and/or trusted parties.

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2024-44189 This Advisory describes an issue that impacts Arista Wireless Access Points. Any entity with the ability to authenticate via SSH to an affected AP as the “config” user is able to cause a privilege escalation via spawning a bash shell. The SSH CLI session does not require high permissions to exploit this vulnerability, but the config password is required to establish the session. The spawned shell is able to obtain root privileges.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
Arista
Published
Updated
Aug 1, 2024, 8:47 PM
Reserved
May 6, 2024, 10:39 PM
Status
Deferred
Published
Jun 27, 2024, 7:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 8:02 AM