# 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.

- **Severity:** High 8.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 27 Jun 2024
- **Updated:** 1 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-wxq3-c3wp-jm5q

## 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 (Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command)

## 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.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-4578 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-4578 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Arista Wireless Access Points. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-4578/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-4578/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-4578
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-4578
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-4578

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-4578/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.