SOC status:Duty analyst on shift

UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2019-18948

This issue is found in Arista’s EOS VxLAN code, which can allow attackers to crash the VxlanSwFwd agent.

HIGH 7.5EPSS 1.04%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.04%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

An issue was found in Arista EOS. Specific malformed ARP packets can impact the software forwarding of VxLAN packets. This issue is found in Arista’s EOS VxLAN code, which can allow attackers to crash the VxlanSwFwd agent. This affects EOS 4.21.8M and below releases in the 4.21.x train, 4.22.3M and below releases in the 4.22.x train, 4.23.1F and below releases in the 4.23.x train, and all releases in 4.15, 4.16, 4.17, 4.18, 4.19, 4.20 code train.

CVSS 3.1
7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
1.04% probability · 62th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Affected
arista/eos
Source
cve@mitre.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.