Security readout for executives and security teams
Plain-English summary
Arista CloudVision Portal on-premises deployments can expose user login passwords in Audit and System logs under certain conditions. The main business risk is credential disclosure to authenticated users who can view those logs, potentially enabling account misuse inside the management environment.
Executive priority
Treat this as a moderate-priority credential exposure issue. Prioritize environments where CVP manages sensitive network infrastructure or where log access is broadly granted. Remediation should focus on vendor-guided upgrade, access restriction, and password rotation where exposure is confirmed.
Technical view
CVE-2022-29071 is a CWE-200 information exposure issue in Arista CloudVision Portal on-premises versions 2020.2, 2020.3, 2021.1, 2021.2, and 2021.3. The source bundle states passwords may be written to Audit and System logs and viewed by other authenticated users. CVSS v3.1 score is 4.0.
Likely exposure
Exposure is limited to organizations running affected on-premises CloudVision Portal versions. The described leakage requires access to CVP logs, so risk is highest where many authenticated users can read Audit or System logs.
Exploitation context
The source bundle does not show CISA KEV listing or public active exploitation evidence. This is primarily an internal exposure and credential-handling risk, not a remotely exploitable takeover based on the supplied CVSS vector and description.
Researcher notes
Evidence is limited to the CVE record and Arista advisory reference in the source bundle. Do not assume affected hosted deployments, exploit availability, or exact fixed versions unless confirmed in Arista’s advisory. The key research task is validating log exposure and affected on-premises version presence.
Mitigation direction
- Review Arista advisory 0079 for fixed versions and vendor remediation guidance.
- Upgrade affected on-premises CVP deployments according to Arista guidance.
- Restrict Audit and System log access to necessary administrators only.
- Rotate CVP user passwords if logs may have exposed credentials.
- Protect or purge retained logs that contain password values.
Validation and detection
- Inventory CVP deployments and confirm whether versions 2020.2 through 2021.3 are present.
- Check Audit and System logs for accidental password disclosure.
- Review which authenticated users can access CVP logs.
- Confirm remediation status against Arista advisory 0079.
- Assess account activity for signs of exposed credential misuse.
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- Medium
- CVSS
- 4 (3.1)
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
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CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N2.51.4AristaVulnerability scoring details
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4MediumVector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
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Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- https://www.arista.com/en/support/advisories-notices/security-advisory/15865-security-advisory-0079CVE reference, Arista · x_refsource_MISC
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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
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