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CVE-2021-28509

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-28509 is an internally discovered vulnerability in Arista EOS TerminAttr and OpenConfig transport protocols, affecting Arista products. Under specific conditions, this flaw can lead to the cleartext leakage of MACsec sensitive data to other authorized users within CVP. With a CVSS score of 6.1 (Medium), the vulnerability has a network attack vector, low attack complexity, and high impact on confidentiality and integrity, potentially allowing MACsec traffic decryption or modification. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.10.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:arista:terminattr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 1.11.0, < 1.16.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:arista:terminattr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 1.17.0, < 1.19.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:arista:terminattr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.23, <= 4.23.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:arista:eos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.24, < 4.24.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:arista:eos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.1MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
0.9
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.45%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
36.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0045 is in the 55th percentile among its peer group of 4,937 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

arista.com / en/support/advisories-notices/security-advisories/15484-security-advisory-0077
ExploitVendor Advisory