Arista Networks CloudVision Portal Multiple Vulnerabilities (SA0043)

high Nessus Plugin ID 138340

Synopsis

The version of Arista Networks CloudVision Portal running on the remote device is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Description

The version of Arista Networks CloudVision Portal running on the remote device is affected by the following vulnerabilities:

- HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to ping floods, potentially leading to a denial of service (DoS).
An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, by sending continual pings to an HTTP/2 peer, causing the peer to build an internal queue of responses. Depending on how efficiently this data is queued, this can consume excess CPU, memory, or both. (CVE-2019-9512)

- HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to a reset flood, potentially leading to a DoS. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can open a number of streams and send an invalid request over each stream that should solicit a stream of RST_STREAM frames from the peer. Depending on how the peer queues the RST_STREAM frames, this can consume excess memory, CPU, or both. (CVE-2019-9514)

- HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to a settings flood, potentially leading to a DoS. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this by sending a stream of SETTINGS frames to the peer.
Since the RFC requires that the peer reply with one acknowledgement per SETTINGS frame, an empty SETTINGS frame is almost equivalent in behavior to a ping. Depending on how efficiently this data is queued, this can consume excess CPU, memory, or both. (CVE-2019-9515)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number. To retrieve patch level information this plugin requires the HTTP credentials of the web console.

Solution

Apply the mitigation or upgrade to a fixed version as referenced in the vendor advisory.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?e5070013

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 138340

File Name: arista_cvp_sa0043.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: remote

Family: Misc.

Published: 7/9/2020

Updated: 12/5/2022

Configuration: Enable paranoid mode

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-9515

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:arista:cloudvision_portal

Required KB Items: installed_sw/Arista CloudVision Portal, Settings/ParanoidReport

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/6/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/13/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-9512, CVE-2019-9514, CVE-2019-9515