CVE-2024-4578

Privilege escalation in Arista Wireless Access Points

HIGH
8.4
CVSS Score
Published: June 27, 2024 at 06:31 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 08:02 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsWireless Access PointsWireless Access Point

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Severity
HIGH8.4
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.5%
SSVC
No known exploit

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

13.0.2.x ≤ v ≤ 13.0.2-28-vv100216.x ≤ v ≤ 16.1.051-vv613.0.2.x15.x16.x
13.0.2.x ≤ v ≤ 13.0.2-28-vv100216.x ≤ v ≤ 16.1.051-vv613.0.2.x15.x16.x

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatableTotal impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

8.4HIGHArista
Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-77

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