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    CVE-2021-28506

    An issue has recently been discovered in Arista EOS where certain gNOI APIs incorrectly skip authorization and authentication which could potentially allow a factory reset of the device.

    Published:Jan 14, 2022
    Last Modified:Nov 21, 2024
    EPS:Jan 14, 2022
    EPSS Score:0.00279
    CVSS Score:9.1

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Arista
    Product
    Eos

    Exploits

    https://www.arista.com/en/support/advisories-notices/security-advisories/13449-security-advisory-0071https://www.arista.com/en/support/advisories-notices/security-advisories/13449-security-advisory-0071

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-1 Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs
    CAPEC-104 Cross Zone Scripting
    CAPEC-12 Choosing Message Identifier
    CAPEC-127 Directory Indexing
    CAPEC-13 Subverting Environment Variable Values
    CAPEC-166 Force the System to Reset Values
    CAPEC-17 Using Malicious Files
    CAPEC-216 Communication Channel Manipulation
    CAPEC-36 Using Unpublished Interfaces or Functionality
    CAPEC-39 Manipulating Opaque Client-based Data Tokens
    CAPEC-402 Bypassing ATA Password Security
    CAPEC-45 Buffer Overflow via Symbolic Links
    CAPEC-5 Blue Boxing
    CAPEC-51 Poison Web Service Registry
    CAPEC-59 Session Credential Falsification through Prediction
    CAPEC-60 Reusing Session IDs (aka Session Replay)
    CAPEC-62 Cross Site Request Forgery
    CAPEC-647 Collect Data from Registries
    CAPEC-665 Exploitation of Thunderbolt Protection Flaws
    CAPEC-668 Key Negotiation of Bluetooth Attack (KNOB)
    CAPEC-76 Manipulating Web Input to File System Calls
    CAPEC-77 Manipulating User-Controlled Variables
    CAPEC-87 Forceful Browsing

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    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High