CVE-2024-4578: Arista Wireless Access Point Firmware

High severity, CVSS 8.4. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Arista Wireless Access Point Firmware: from 13.0.2, up to and including 13.0.2-28-vv1002; from 15, before 16 (fixed in 16); from 16, up to and including 16.1.051-vv6
• Arista Networks Arista Wireless Access Points: from 13.0.2, up to and including 13.0.2-28-vv1002; from 15, before 16 (fixed in 16); from 16, up to and including 16.1.051-vv6

Published 2024-06-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.