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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2020-9015

Arista DCS-7050QX-32S-R 4.20.9M, DCS-7050CX3-32S-R 4.20.11M, and DCS-7280SRAM-48C6-R 4.22.0.1F devices (and possibly other products) allow attackers to bypass intended TACACS+ shell restrictions via a | character.

CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 16.5%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 16.5%, higher than 97% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

Arista DCS-7050QX-32S-R 4.20.9M, DCS-7050CX3-32S-R 4.20.11M, and DCS-7280SRAM-48C6-R 4.22.0.1F devices (and possibly other products) allow attackers to bypass intended TACACS+ shell restrictions via a | character. NOTE: the vendor reports that this is a configuration issue relating to an overly permissive regular expression in the TACACS+ server permitted commands

CVSS 3.1
9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
16.46% probability · 97th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Affected
arista/dcs-7050qx-32s-r firmware · arista/dcs-7050cx3-32s-r firmware · arista/dcs-7280sram-48c6-r firmware
Source
cve@mitre.org
EPSS trend
0%10%20%3 November 2026: 16.46%3 November 20263 November 2026

EPSS 16.5% since 3 November 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.