CVE-2023-24509 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2023-24509

On affected modular platforms running Arista EOS equipped with both redundant supervisor modules and having the redundancy protocol configured with RPR or SSO, an existing unprivileged user can login to the standby supervisor as a root user, leading t ...

Vulnerability Description

On affected modular platforms running Arista EOS equipped with both redundant supervisor modules and having the redundancy protocol configured with RPR or SSO, an existing unprivileged user can login to the standby supervisor as a root user, leading to a privilege escalation. Valid user credentials are required in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • Arista would like to acknowledge and thank Marc-André Labonté, Senior Information Security Analyst at Desjardins for responsibly reporting CVE-2023-24509.

Affected Vendor

Arista Networks

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Affected Software

Arista EOS
Vulnerable Versions:
4.23.0 4.23.13M, 4.28.0, 4.27.0, 4.286.0, 4.25.0, 4.24.0

Timeline

Official Publish: April 13th, 2023
Last Modified: February 7th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)