CVE-2024-4578 json
Privilege escalation in Arista Wireless Access Points
published 2024-06-27 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-44189
- cvss
- 8.4
- version 3.1, CNA
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.5%
- EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 42%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
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.
CISA SSVC
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- total
- Assessed
- 2 y ago
Exploit prediction
0.49% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 42% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).
CVSS scores
| assigned by | version | score | vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CNA | 3.1 | 8.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
Affected products
- Arista Networks Arista Wireless Access Points
- arista wireless_access_point_firmware
Classification
- Weakness
-
- CWE-77 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command
References
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2024-4578
- NVD CVE-2024-4578
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