PT-2024-17749

CVE-2024-12829

Published

2024-12-19

Updated

2025-01-03

Description by

CVSS 3.1

8.8

High

MetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Arista NG Firewall (affected versions not specified)

Description This issue allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Arista NG Firewall. Authentication is required to exploit this issue. The specific flaw exists within the ExecManagerImpl class, resulting from the lack of proper validation of a user-supplied string before using it to execute a system call. An attacker can leverage this issue to execute code in the context of root.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Exploitability

Fix

Impacts

Researchers

Mdisec

Mehmet Ince

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-78: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command (\'OS Command Injection\')

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