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CVE-2018-5254 (GCVE-0-2018-5254)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-04-12 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 05:33

Summary

Arista EOS before 4.20.2F allows remote BGP peers to cause a denial of service (Rib agent restart) via a malformed path attribute in an UPDATE message.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
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Date Public

2018-04-05 00:00

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FKIE_CVE-2018-5254

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2018-04-12 21:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:59

Severity

7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

Arista EOS before 4.20.2F allows remote BGP peers to cause a denial of service (Rib agent restart) via a malformed path attribute in an UPDATE message.

References

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	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://www.arista.com/en/support/advisories-notices/security-advisories/4403-security-advisory-33	Vendor Advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	arista	eos	*

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GHSA-FWCG-FQR6-423C

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-14 03:22 – Updated: 2022-05-14 03:22

Details

Arista EOS before 4.20.2F allows remote BGP peers to cause a denial of service (Rib agent restart) via a malformed path attribute in an UPDATE message.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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GSD-2018-5254

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:22

Details

Arista EOS before 4.20.2F allows remote BGP peers to cause a denial of service (Rib agent restart) via a malformed path attribute in an UPDATE message.

Aliases

CVE-2018-5254

Aliases

CVE-2018-5254

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

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Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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Action not permitted

CVE-2018-5254 (GCVE-0-2018-5254)

FKIE_CVE-2018-5254

GHSA-FWCG-FQR6-423C

GSD-2018-5254

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