CVE-2018-5254 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Arista EOS versions prior to 4.20.2F. Remote BGP peers can trigger a Rib agent restart by sending a malformed path attribute within an UPDATE message. This vulnerability has a CVSS v3.0 score of 7.5 (High), indicating that it can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, requiring no user interaction, and resulting in high availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage regarding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 4.20.2fCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:arista:eos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.