What is CVE-2023-24511?

CVE-2023-24511 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Arista 7010t, classified under Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2023-04-12.

How severe is CVE-2023-24511?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Arista 7010t

CVE-2023-24511

On affected platforms running Arista EOS with SNMP configured, a specially crafted packet can cause a memory leak in the snmpd process. This may result in the snmpd processing being terminated (causing SNMP requests to time out until snmpd is automatically restarted) and potential memory resource exhaustion for other processes on the switch. The vulnerability does not have any confidentiality or integrity impacts to the system.

EPSS: 0.008 (55.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-401 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

References

psirt@arista.com (Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-24511?: CVE-2023-24511 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Arista 7010t, classified under Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2023-04-12.
How severe is CVE-2023-24511?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.