Security Advisory 0108
Date: December 5, 2024
| Revision | Date | Changes |
|---|---|---|
| 1.0 | November 26, 2024 | Initial release |
| 1.1 | December 5, 2024 | Update the affected and fixed EOS versions |
The CVE-ID tracking this issue: CVE-2024-6437
CVSSv3.1 Base Score: 5.8 (CVSS:3.1/ AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L)
Common Weakness Enumeration: CWE-1220: Insufficient Granularity of Access Control
This vulnerability is being tracked by BUG 962149
Description
On affected platforms running Arista EOS with one of the following features configured to redirect IP traffic to a next hop: policy-based routing (PBR), BGP Flowspec, or interface traffic policy -- certain IP traffic such as IPv4 packets with IP options may bypass the feature's set nexthop action and be slow-path forwarded (FIB routed) by the kernel as the packets are trapped to the CPU instead of following the redirect action's destination.
This issue was discovered externally and responsibly reported to Arista.
Vulnerability Assessment
Affected Software
Policy Based Routing (PBR)
- 4.32.1F and below releases in the 4.32.x train
- 4.31.4M and below releases in the 4.31.x train
- 4.30.7M and below releases in the 4.30.x train
- 4.29.9M and below releases in the 4.29.x train
- 4.28.11M and below releases in the 4.28.x train
- 4.27.12M and below releases in the 4.27.x train
- 4.26.14M and below releases in the 4.26.x train
- 4.25.11M and below releases in the 4.25.x train
- 4.24.11M and below releases in the 4.24.x train
- 4.23.15M and below releases in the 4.23.x train
- 4.22.13M and below releases in the 4.22.x train
- 4.21.15M and below releases in the 4.21.x train
BGP Flowspec
- 4.32.1F and below releases in the 4.32.x train
- 4.31.4M and below releases in the 4.31.x train
- 4.30.7M and below releases in the 4.30.x train
- 4.29.9M and below releases in the 4.29.x train
- 4.28.11M and below releases in the 4.28.x train
- 4.27.12M and below releases in the 4.27.x train
- 4.26.14M and below releases in the 4.26.x train
- 4.25.11M and below releases in the 4.25.x train
- 4.24.11M and below releases in the 4.24.x train
- 4.23.15M and below releases in the 4.23.x train
- 4.22.13M and below releases in the 4.22.x train
- Releases in the 4.21.x train between 4.21.3F and 4.21.15M
Interface Traffic Policy
- 4.32.1F and below releases in the 4.32.x train
- 4.31.4M and below releases in the 4.31.x train
- 4.30.7M and below releases in the 4.30.x train
- 4.29.9M and below releases in the 4.29.x train
- 4.28.11M and below releases in the 4.28.x train
- Releases in the 4.27.x train between 4.27.2F and 4.27.12M
Affected Platforms
Policy Based Routing (PBR)
- Arista EOS-based products:
- 7010 Series
- 7010X Series
- 7160 Series
- 7050X/X2/X3/X4 Series
- 7060X/X2/X4/X5/X6 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/R4 Series
BGP Flowspec
- Arista EOS-based products:
- 7280E/R/R2/R3 Series
- 7500E/R/R2/R3 Series
- 7800R3/R4 Series
Interface Traffic Policy
- Arista EOS-based products:
- 7280E/R/R2/R3 Series
- 7500E/R/R2/R3 Series
- 7800R3/R4 Series
Not Affected
- Arista EOS-based products:
- 710 Series
- 720D Series
- 720XP/722XPM Series
- 750X Series
- 7130 Series running EOS
- 7150 Series
- 7170 Series
- AWE 5000 Series
- AWE 7200R Series
- CloudEOS
- cEOS-lab
- vEOS-lab
- CloudVision eXchange, virtual or physical appliance
- Arista Wireless Access Points
- CloudVision CUE, virtual appliance or physical appliance
- CloudVision CUE cloud service delivery
- CloudVision Portal, virtual appliance or physical appliance
- CloudVision as-a-Service
- CloudVision AGNI
- Arista 7130 Systems running MOS
- Arista Converged Cloud Fabric and DANZ Monitoring Fabric (Formerly Big Switch Nodes for BCF and BMF)
- Arista Network Detection and Response (NDR) Security Platform (Formerly Awake NDR)
- Arista Edge Threat Management - Arista NG Firewall and Arista Micro Edge (Formerly Untangle)
- Arista NetVisor OS, Arista NetVisor UNUM, and Insight Analytics (Formerly Pluribus)
Required Configuration for Exploitation
In order to be vulnerable to CVE-2024-6437, one of the following three conditions must be met:
Policy Based Routing (PBR)
(1) A PBR policy must be configured with a rule which redirects to a next hop or set of next hops.
switch(config)#show policy-map type pbr Service policy pmap1 Configured on: Ethernet20/1 Applied on: Ethernet20/1 10: Single match statement Match: 0 permit ip any host 10.2.1.1 Configured actions: set nexthop 10.20.1.1 Active routing action: VRF default Route to nexthop 10.20.1.1 default 20: Single match statement Match: 0 permit ip any host 10.3.1.1 Configured actions: set nexthop 10.20.2.1 Active routing action: VRF default Route to nexthop 10.20.2.1 default 30: Single match statement Match: 0 permit ip 10.50.1.0/24 any Configured actions: set nexthop 10.20.3.1 Active routing action: VRF default Route to nexthop 10.20.3.1 default 40: Single match statement Match: 0 permit ip any any Configured actions: set nexthop 10.20.4.1 Active routing action: VRF default Route to nexthop 10.20.4.1 default
With this configuration, any packet that does not match the PBR match rules will fall through and match the "default" match-all rule and should get redirected to the next hop 10.20.4.1.
BGP Flowspec
OR
(2) A BGP Flowspec must be configured with a rule which redirects to a next hop or set of next hops.
switch#show flow-spec ipv4 Flow specification rules for VRF default Configured on: Ethernet20/1 Applied on: Ethernet20/1 Flow-spec rule: 10.100.0.0/16;*; Rule identifier: 1 Matches: Destination prefix: 10.100.0.0/16 Actions: Redirect: VRF default Route via next hop 10.20.4.1 Status: Installed: yes Counter: 0 packets, 0 bytes
With this configuration, all traffic ingressing Ethernet20/1 with destination addresses in the 10.100.0.0/16 subnet should get redirected to the next hop 10.20.4.1.
Interface Traffic Policy
OR
(3) An interface traffic policy must be configured with a rule that redirects to a next hop or set of next hops.
switch#show traffic-policy interface Traffic policy foo Configured on input of interfaces: Ethernet20/1 Applied on input of interfaces for IPv4 traffic: Ethernet20/1 Applied on input of interfaces for IPv6 traffic: Applied on input of interfaces for MAC traffic: Configured on output of interfaces: Applied on output of interfaces for IPv4 traffic: Applied on output of interfaces for IPv6 traffic: Total number of rules configured: 3 match rule1 ipv4 Destination prefix: 10.100.0.0/16 Actions: Redirect next hop 10.20.4.1 Active routing action: VRF default Route via next hop 10.20.4.1 VRF default match ipv4-all-default ipv4 match ipv6-all-default ipv6
With this configuration, all traffic ingressing Ethernet20/1 with destination addresses in the 10.100.0.0/16 subnet should get redirected to the next hop 10.20.4.1.
Indicators of Compromise
Exploitation of CVE-2024-6437 will lead to IP traffic following the FIB (regular routing table) route instead of the next hop defined by the set nexthop action.
For the examples to follow, let's suppose the following FIB route is configured in the system, and the ARP entry is resolved.
switch#show ip route 10.100.1.1/32
VRF: default
Source Codes:
C - connected, S - static, K - kernel,
O - OSPF, IA - OSPF inter area, E1 - OSPF external type 1,
E2 - OSPF external type 2, N1 - OSPF NSSA external type 1,
N2 - OSPF NSSA external type2, B - Other BGP Routes,
B I - iBGP, B E - eBGP, R - RIP, I L1 - IS-IS level 1,
I L2 - IS-IS level 2, O3 - OSPFv3, A B - BGP Aggregate,
A O - OSPF Summary, NG - Nexthop Group Static Route,
V - VXLAN Control Service, M - Martian,
DH - DHCP client installed default route,
DP - Dynamic Policy Route, L - VRF Leaked,
G - gRIBI, RC - Route Cache Route,
CL - CBF Leaked Route
S 10.100.1.1/32
directly connected, Ethernet10/1
Policy Based Routing (PBR)
The following example uses the PBR configuration from condition (1) in Required Configuration for Exploitation.
Suppose the flow (source IP: 10.50.1.1 destination IP: 10.100.1.1) ingresses Ethernet20/1, which has a PBR policy pmap1 applied. The flow matches rule 40.
switch(config)#show policy-map type pbr Service policy pmap1 Configured on: Ethernet20/1 Applied on: Ethernet20/1 ... 40: Single match statement Match: 0 permit ip any any Configured actions: set nexthop 10.20.4.1 Active routing action: VRF default Route to nexthop 10.20.4.1 default
The expectation is that the flow gets redirected to 10.20.4.1; instead, traffic gets redirected to the destination in the routing table, Ethernet10/1.
BGP Flowspec
The following example uses the BGP Flowspec configuration from condition (2) in Required Configuration for Exploitation.
Suppose the flow (source IP: 10.50.1.1 destination IP: 10.100.1.1) ingresses Ethernet20/1, which has BGP Flowspec policy applied to Ethernet20/1's VRF. The flow matches Flow-spec rule: 10.100.0.0/16;*.
switch#show flow-spec ipv4 Flow specification rules for VRF default Configured on: Ethernet20/1 Applied on: Ethernet20/1 Flow-spec rule: 10.100.0.0/16;*; Rule identifier: 1 Matches: Destination prefix: 10.100.0.0/16 Actions: Redirect: VRF default Route via next hop 10.20.4.1 Status: Installed: yes Counter: 0 packets, 0 bytes
The expectation is that the flow gets redirected to 10.20.4.1; instead, traffic gets redirected to the destination in the routing table, Ethernet10/1.
Interface Traffic Policy
The following example uses the interface traffic policy configuration from condition (3) in Required Configuration for Exploitation.
Suppose the flow (source IP: 10.50.1.1 destination IP: 10.100.1.1) ingresses Ethernet20/1, which has an interface traffic policy, foo, applied.
The flow matches rule1.
switch#show traffic-policy interface Traffic policy foo Configured on input of interfaces: Ethernet20/1 Applied on input of interfaces for IPv4 traffic: Ethernet20/1 Applied on input of interfaces for IPv6 traffic: Applied on input of interfaces for MAC traffic: Configured on output of interfaces: Applied on output of interfaces for IPv4 traffic: Applied on output of interfaces for IPv6 traffic: Total number of rules configured: 3 match rule1 ipv4 Destination prefix: 10.100.0.0/16 Actions: Redirect next hop 10.20.4.1 Active routing action: VRF default Route via next hop 10.20.4.1 VRF default match ipv4-all-default ipv4 match ipv6-all-default ipv6
The expectation is that the flow gets redirected to 10.20.4.1; instead, traffic gets redirected to the destination in the routing table, Ethernet10/1.
Common Symptoms
Increments in the egress interface counters for the FIB route destination may indicate that traffic is not getting redirected according to the set nexthop destination.
switch#show interface counters | nz Port InOctets InUcastPkts InMcastPkts InBcastPkts Et20/1 108160 1040 0 0 Ma1 512502 4220 331 816 Port OutOctets OutUcastPkts OutMcastPkts OutBcastPkts Et10/1 108160 1040 0 0 Ma1 550930 3017 0 0
For all three vulnerabilities on 7280E/R/R2/R3, 7500E/R/R2/R3, and 7800 devices, the show cpu counters queue | nz command will also display increments in packet counts for traffic destined to the CPU. Increments in the CoppSystemL3Ttl1IpOptUcast counter may indicate that a lot of TTL0/1 and/or IP options unicast traffic is being trapped to the CPU. All such traffic will bypass the set nexthop action in all of the affected features.
switch#show cpu counters queue | nz
<Chip Name>:
CoPP Class Queue Pkts Octets DropPkts DropOctets
Aggregate
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CoppSystemL3Ttl1IpOptUcast TC0 1040 108160 0 0
- 7010X Series
- 7160 Series
- 7050X/X2/X3/X4 Series
- 7060X/X2/X4/X5/X6 Series
- 7250X Series
- 7260X/X3 Series
- 7300X/X3 Series
- 7320X Series
- 7358X4 Series
- 7368X4 Series
- 7388X5 Series
The L3 Slow Path counter in show cpu counters queue | nz indicates that traffic is being trapped to the CPU for slow path forwarding. All such traffic will bypass the set nexthop action in all of the affected features.
switch#show cpu counters queue | nz
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<Linecard Name>
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Queue Counters/pkts Drops/pkts
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L3 Slow Path 1040 0
Mitigation
For all affected systems, the suggested mitigation for all three affected features is to drop all IPv4 options traffic via the ip software forwarding options action drop, available in 4.32.2F and later releases in the 4.32 train, 4.31.5M and later releases in the 4.31 train, and 4.30.8M and later releases in the 4.30 train. The command installs an iptables rule that drops all IPv4 options traffic in the filter table of the FORWARD chain.
switch(config)#ip software forwarding options action drop
# Below is shown to illustrate what the rule does. This is not a command that needs to be run.
switch(config)#bash sudo iptables -vnL EOS_FORWARD
Chain EOS_FORWARD (1 references)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination
0 0 DROP all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 u32 ! "0x0>>0x18=0x45"
0 0 REJECT all -- * fwd+ 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 u32 ! "0x0>>0x18=0x45" reject-with icmp-admin-prohibited
0 0 DROP all -- * ma+ 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
0 0 ACCEPT all -- * * !127.0.0.0/8 !127.0.0.0/8
Additionally, in 7280R3, 7500R3, and 7800R3 systems, the system-rule overriding-action redirect command (present in EOS-4.28.0F and newer releases) can be used to allow for all of the affected features' set nexthop action to take precedence over the system ACL's trap action to CPU. See TCAM redirect action overriding system rules - TOI for more information.
Resolution
The recommended resolution is to upgrade to a remediated software version that contains the ip software forwarding options action drop CLI command, and configure the command at your earliest convenience. Arista recommends customers move to the latest version of each release that contains all the fixes listed below. For more information about upgrading see EOS User Manual: Upgrades and Downgrades
CVE-2024-6437 has been fixed in the following releases:
- 4.32.2F and later releases in the 4.32.x train
- 4.31.5M and later releases in the 4.31.x train
- 4.30.8M and later releases in the 4.30.x train
- 4.29.10M and later releases in the 4.29.x train
Hotfix
No hotfix exists for this issue.
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:
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