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CVE-2025-6978

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2025-6978 is a diagnostics command injection vulnerability affecting the Arista NG Firewall, allowing for arbitrary code execution. This high-severity vulnerability (CVSS 7.2) can be exploited remotely with high privileges and low attack complexity, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no public exploit code or active exploitation has been observed, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, indicating a level of awareness within the cybersecurity community.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Arista NetworksArista Edge Threat Management - Arista Next Generation Firewall
>= 0.0, <= 17.3.1CNA affecteddefault unaffected

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.2HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.2
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
13.77%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
96.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1377 is in the 94th percentile among its peer group of 5,530 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.3 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

https / /www.arista.com/en/support/advisories-notices/security-advisory/22535-security-advisory-0123