Security Advisory 0100 PDF

Date: July 8, 2024

 

Revision Date Changes
1.0 July 8th, 2024 Initial release

The CVE-ID tracking this issue: CVE-2024-6387
CVSSv3.1 Base Score: 8.1 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Description

Arista Networks is providing this security update in response to the OpenSSH security vulnerability CVE-2024-6387, named regreSSHion.

The vulnerability involves a signal handler race condition that can lead to a potential unauthenticated remote code execution in OpenSSH’s server (sshd) in glibc-based Linux systems that grants full root access. It affects the default configuration and does not require user interaction, posing a significant exploit risk.

Affected OpenSSH Versions:
  • OpenSSH < 4.4p1 is vulnerable to this signal handler race condition, if not backport-patched against CVE-2006-5051, or not patched against CVE-2008-4109, which was an incorrect fix for CVE-2006-5051;
  • 4.4p1 <= OpenSSH < 8.5p1 is not vulnerable to this signal handler race condition 
  • 8.5p1 <= OpenSSH < 9.8p1 is vulnerable again to this signal handler race condition
    (because the "#ifdef DO_LOG_SAFE_IN_SIGHAND" was accidentally removed from sigdie()).

Arista Product Security Incident Response Teams are aware of, and are urgently investigating our product suites exposure to this issue. A current list of affected products is included below and Arista will update this advisory with information pending ongoing assessment.

Vulnerability Assessment

Affected Software

EOS release versions:

  • 4.32.1F and below releases in the 4.32.x train only.
    4.31.X and below are not impacted.

WI-FI Access Points versions:

  • 17.0 release train
  • 16.1 release train
  • 16.0 release train

Awake Security versions:

  • 5.1.2 and below releases in the 5.1.x train
  • 5.0.6 and below releases in the 5.0.x train
  • 4.2.5 and below releases in the 4.2.x train

Affected Platforms

Arista EOS-based products:

  • 710 Series
  • 720D Series
  • 720XP/722XPM Series
  • 750X Series
  • 7010 Series
  • 7010X Series
  • 7020R Series
  • 7130 Series running EOS
  • 7150 Series
  • 7160 Series
  • 7170 Series
  • 7050X/X2/X3/X4 Series
  • 7060X/X2/X4/X5 Series
  • 7250X Series
  • 7260X/X3 Series
  • 7280E/R/R2/R3 Series
  • 7300X/X3 Series
  • 7320X Series
  • 7358X4 Series
  • 7368X4 Series
  • 7388X5 Series
  • 7500E/R/R2/R3 Series
  • 7800R3 Series
  • CloudEOS
  • cEOS-lab
  • vEOS-lab
  • AWE 5000 Series
  • CloudVision eXchange, virtual or physical appliance

Arista Wireless Access Points:

  • All AP models

Arista Network Detection and Response (NDR) Security Platform (Formerly Awake NDR):

  • Arista NDR AVA Nucleus
  • Arista NDR AVA Campus Nucleus
 
The following products are NOT affected by CVE-2024-6387:
  • CloudVision CUE, virtual appliance or physical appliance
  • CloudVision CUE cloud service delivery
  • CloudVision AGNI
  • CloudVision Portal, virtual appliance or physical appliance
  • CloudVision as-a-Service
  • Arista 7130 Systems running MOS
  • Arista Converged Cloud Fabric and DANZ Monitoring Fabric (Formerly Big Switch Nodes for BCF and BMF)
  • Arista Edge Threat Management - Arista NG Firewall and Arista Micro Edge (Formerly Untangle)
  • Arista NetVisor OS, Arista NetVisor UNUM, and Insight Analytics (Formerly Pluribus)

Mitigation

Enhanced Access Control

Arista EOS-based products

Enable SSH service ACLs to limit SSH access to minimize the attack risks.

ip access-list allowHosts4
   10 permit ip host <ipv4 address> any
 
ipv6 access-list allowHosts6
   10 permit ipv6 host <ipv6 address> any
 
management ssh
   ip access-group allowHosts4 in
   ipv6 access-group allowHosts6 vrf RED in
 

 

For more information about SSH service ACLs see Configuring Service ACLs and Displaying Status and Counters.

Arista Wireless Access Points

This workaround is to restrict SSH access to the AP from known IPs by defining the whitelist on
CV-CUE, Configure --> Device --> AccessPoints --> General --> Enable SSH IP Allow List

Security Advisory 100

Disable SSH Server Authentication Timeout

The workaround is to set LoginGraceTime to 0 to fix the signal handler race condition in OpenSSH.

Note: The LoginGraceTime mitigation has a side effect of removing protection from the malicious attackers attempting to tie up server resources by opening connections and leaving them idle indefinitely. This could lead to a denial-of-service (DoS) condition where legitimate users cannot connect because server resources are exhausted.

If such a DoS is attempted, ACLs should be added on the device or its connected switches and firewalls to limit the sources of malicious traffic until an upgrade to a patched release can be deployed.

Arista EOS-based products

switch(config)#management ssh
switch(config-mgmt-ssh)#no login timeout
 

  

Arista NDR Security Platform

The NDR ops team has deployed the OpenSSH timeout configuration change that mitigates the issue to all vulnerable managed appliances.

No user configuration is required.

Resolution

Arista EOS-based products

There are no fixes presently available for affected products.

Arista Wireless Access Points

There are no fixes presently available for affected products.

Arista NDR Security Platform

There are no fixes presently available for affected products.

 

Hotfix

The following hotfix can be applied to remediate CVE-2024-6387. The hotfix only applies to the releases listed below and no other releases. All other versions require upgrading to a release containing the fix (as listed above) or applying the mitigation as a temporarily fix.

Note: Installing/uninstalling the SWIX will cause the SuperServer agent to restart, services may be unavailable for up to one minute. The existing session should not get interrupted but it's suggested to re-login after the hotfix installation.

 
Arista EOS-based products
  • 4.32.1F and below releases in the 4.32.x train
SWIX hash:(SHA512)
7766e19fa5ea607af77272c1a8363c7c9c10140cb7a7f99f6bc674b0bc91b808a571f600830856033a55751580e30519640fe1a9583a1a6aebec86d184ec8f7f
 

For instructions on installation and verification of the hotfix patch, refer to the “managing eos extensions” section in the EOS User Manual. Ensure that the patch is made persistent across reboots by running the command ‘copy installed-extensions boot-extensions’.

References

 

 

For More Information

If you require further assistance, or if you have any further questions regarding this security notice, please contact the Arista Networks Technical Assistance Center (TAC) by one of the following methods:

Open a Service Request

Contact information needed to open a new service request may be found at:
https://www.arista.com/en/support/customer-support