What is CVE-2024-8000?

CVE-2024-8000 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Arista Networks Eos, classified under Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2025-03-04.

How severe is CVE-2024-8000?

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

Vulnerability in Arista Networks Eos

CVE-2024-8000

On affected platforms running Arista EOS with 802.1X configured, certain conditions may occur where a dynamic ACL is received from the AAA server resulting in only the first line of the ACL being installed after an Accelerated Software Upgrade (ASU) restart. Note: supplicants with pending captive-portal authentication during ASU would be impacted with this bug.

EPSS: 0.002 (8.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

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

Affected products

Arista Networks Eos — versions 4.32.0, 4.31.0, 4.30.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-1284 — Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input

References

psirt@arista.com

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-8000?: CVE-2024-8000 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Arista Networks Eos, classified under Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2025-03-04.
How severe is CVE-2024-8000?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.