CVE-2021-28506: critical vulnerability in Arista Networks EOS
An issue has recently been discovered in Arista EOS where certain gNOI APIs incorrectly skip authorization and authentication which could potentially allow a factory reset of the device.
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28Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 9.1epss 1.5%
An issue has recently been discovered in Arista EOS where certain gNOI APIs incorrectly skip authorization and authentication which could potentially allow a factory reset of the device.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Arista Networks · EOSRelated CVEs — Arista Networks EOS
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2026-7473MEDIUMArista EOS Unexpected Tunnel Protocol Decapsulation and Forwarding BypassEPSS 1.1%KEVCVE-2024-27890HIGHOn affected platforms running Arista EOS with OpenConfig configured, a gNMI Set request can be run when it should have been rejected (No SSL Profiles Enabled).EPSS 4.4%CVE-2021-28510MEDIUMFor certain systems running EOS, a Precision Time Protocol (PTP) packet of a management/signaling message with an invalid Type-Length-Value (TLV) causes the PTP agent to restart. Repeated restarts of the service will make the service unavailable.EPSS 1.0%CVE-2021-28505HIGHOn affected Arista EOS platforms, if a VXLAN match rule exists in an IPv4 access-list that is applied to the ingress of an L2 or an L3 port/SVI, the VXLAN rule and subsequent ACL rules in that access list will ignore the specified IP protocol.EPSS 0.9%CVE-2023-24511MEDIUMOn affected platforms running Arista EOS with SNMP configured, a specially crafted packet can cause a memory leak in the snmpd process.EPSS 0.8%CVE-2023-24545HIGHOn affected platforms running Arista CloudEOS an issue in the Software Forwarding Engine (Sfe) can lead to a potential denial of service attack by sending malformed packets to the switch.EPSS 0.8%