CVE-2021-28495

CriticalCVSS 9.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

In Arista's MOS (Metamako Operating System) software which is supported on the 7130 product line, under certain conditions, user authentication can be bypassed when API access is enabled via the JSON-RPC APIs. This issue affects: Arista Metamako Operating System All releases in the MOS-0.1x train MOS-0.13 and post releases in the MOS-0.1x train MOS-0.26.6 and below releases in the MOS-0.2x train MOS-0.31.1 and below releases in the MOS-0.3x train

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 9.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-287

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Sep 9, 2021
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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