CVE-2024-4578 Privilege escalation in Arista Wireless Access Points
Authenticated SSH users can escalate privileges to root by spawning a bash shell on Arista Wireless Access Points.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-4578?
CVE-2024-4578 is a high-severity vulnerability in Arista Wireless Access Points, published on 27 Jun 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-77
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-4578?
How do I fix CVE-2024-4578?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-4578 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2024-4578 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-4578 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-wxq3-c3wp-jm5q.