CVE detail

CVE-2021-28504 — CVE-2021-28504

Published 2022-04-01 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor arista · Product eos · Source nvd
HIGH
severity
CVSS-derived band
7.5
CVSS v3
0–10 scale
0.0072
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
51.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
NOT LISTED
CISA KEV
known exploited catalog

Description

On Arista Strata family products which have “TCAM profile” feature enabled when Port IPv4 access-list has a rule which matches on “vxlan” as protocol then that rule and subsequent rules ( rules declared after it in ACL ) do not match on IP protocol field as expected.

Remediation

vendor remediation guidance

The recommended resolution is to upgrade to a remediated software version at your earliest convenience. Artista recommends customers move to the latest version of each release that contains all the fixes listed below. CVE-2021-28504 has been fixed in the following releases: 4.26.4F and later releases in the 4.26.x train 4.27.1M and later releases in the 4.27.x train

workarounds

Replace "vxlan" IP protocol match with match on IP protocol "udp" and Layer 4 destination port for VxLAN encapsulated packets i.e 4789. If VXLAN L4 destination port number is not the default 4789 then use the configured L4 destination port number.

ProductVulnerable rangeFixed versionAdvisory
Arista Networks EOS>=4.26.3F<=4.26.04.26.0advisory ↗
Arista Networks EOS>=4.27.0F<=4.27.04.27.0advisory ↗

References

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