CVE-2024-7142 Weak cryptography in CloudVision Appliance
Attackers with physical access can read unencrypted data from Arista CloudVision Appliance disks due to failed hardware encryption.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-7142?
CVE-2024-7142 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Arista Networks CloudVision Appliance, published on 10 Jan 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
On Arista CloudVision Appliance (CVA) affected releases running on appliances that support hardware disk encryption (DCA-350E-CV only), the disk encryption might not be successfully performed. This results in the disks remaining unsecured and data on them
Weakness: CWE-311
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-7142?
How do I fix CVE-2024-7142?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-7142 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2024-7142 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-7142 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-w5g9-ccrp-5568.