CVE-2024-8100 Privilege escalation in CloudVision
High 8.7
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-8100 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2024-8100 is a high-severity vulnerability in Arista Networks CloudVision, published on 8 May 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-8100 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: Arista Networks CloudVision. 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-2024-8100/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8100/index.md)
Attackers can use time-bound device onboarding tokens to gain admin privileges on Arista CloudVision Portal.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-8100?
CVE-2024-8100 is a high-severity vulnerability in Arista Networks CloudVision, published on 8 May 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Official description
On affected versions of the Arista CloudVision Portal (CVP on-prem), the time-bound device onboarding token can be used to gain admin privileges on CloudVision.
Weakness: CWE-269
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-8100?
How do I fix CVE-2024-8100?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-8100 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2024-8100 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-8100 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-j55q-g28w-q6mv.