Missing authorization in Arista EOS
Priority LOW 11CWE-862Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Adjacent network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- Present
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · Low · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-862.
Summary
An authenticated supplicant on an adjacent network may bypass intended network authorization policy and send unrestricted traffic during a brief window (milliseconds to seconds) between the completion of the authentication phase and the full enforcement of its assigned ACL.
Why it matters now
Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00224 13th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-77191
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-x5j2-9m8v-88hr
References
More Arista vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-79524 Privilege escalation in Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator on-premises KEVCVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.4
- TI-2026-63212 Improper input validation in Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator On-Prem KEVCVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.5
- TI-2026-13992 VeloCloud Orchestrator OS Command Injection KEVCVSS 4.0CRITICAL 10.0
- TI-2014-05975 GNU Bash through 4.3 bash43-025 processes trailing strings after certain malformed… KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2014-05157 GNU Bash through 4.3 processes trailing strings after function definitions in the values… KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2026-23989 crypto: algif_aead - Revert to operating out-of-place KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8
Sources
- CVE-2026-77191 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-77191 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-x5j2-9m8v-88hr · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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