What is CVE-2024-9188?

CVE-2024-9188 is a high-severity vulnerability in Arista Ng Firewall, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2025-01-10.

How severe is CVE-2024-9188?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.

XSS in Arista Ng Firewall

CVE-2024-9188

Specially constructed queries cause cross platform scripting leaking administrator tokens

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2025-01-10 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.005 (41.2th percentile), scored 2026-10-19.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 41st percentile — 41.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.005 · newest: 0.005 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Arista Ng Firewall
Arista Networks Edge Threat Management — versions 17.1.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

www.arista.com/en/support/advisories-notices/security-advisory/20454-security-a… (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-9188?: CVE-2024-9188 is a high-severity vulnerability in Arista Ng Firewall, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2025-01-10.
How severe is CVE-2024-9188?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.