Security Advisory 0062 PDF

Updated: March 29th, 2021

Revision Date Changes
1.0 March 16th, 2021 Initial Release
1.1 March 29th, 2021 -Telegraf removed from affected EOS features
- Influxdb removed from affected components in MOS
- Added config for SSL profile with trust certificate configuration
- Added config check for vulnerable configuration in TerminAttr
- Updated assessment for CVP
- Updated mitigation for EOS, CVP and MOS

 

The CVE-ID tracking this issue: CVE-2020-28362

CVSSv3.1 Base Score: 7.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Description

This advisory documents the impact of a publicly disclosed vulnerability in the Go programming language (maintained by Google), on Arista products. Affected products include EOS, CloudVision Portal and MOS software. Affected features and software releases are listed in the sections below.

 

The vulnerability affects features that use TLS connections or client certificate authentication. When exploited, the vulnerability can allow denial of service attacks for the affected features.

  • EOS devices running the affected releases are vulnerable if any of the following features are enabled.The impact is an agent crash for the affected feature.
    • TerminAttr - Used for streaming telemetry to Arista CloudVision.
    • gRIBI - Used to insert entries in the routing table from an external client.
    • Octa - Combines gNMI service support for OpenConfig and certain TerminAttr functionality.
    • OpenConfig - Used for the OpenConfig standard which allows for both streaming telemetry and configuration.
  • On 7130 systems running MOS, the Docker application may experience a crash. A Docker application crash does NOT impact the existing containers running on the system but it results in an application restart. 
  • CloudVision Portal is vulnerable as it uses TLS connections to connect to EOS devices. As the result of an exploit, the ingest component of the CVP backend may crash and affect overall product functionality.

Arista is not aware of any malicious uses of this issue in customer networks.

 

Vulnerability Assessment

Affected Software

CloudVision Portal:

  • 2020.1.2 and below releases in the 2020.1.x train.
  • 2020.2.4 and below releases in the 2020.2.x train.
  • 2020.3.0 release

EOS:

  • 4.25.0F
  • 4.25.1F (if gRIBI is configured). 

TerminAttr:

  • TerminAttr-v1.11.0
  • TerminAttr-v1.11.1
  • TerminAttr-v1.12.0 

MOS:

  • MOS-0.28.4 and below releases in the MOS-0.28.x train.
  • MOS-0.29.0
  • MOS-0.30.0

Affected Platforms

  • The following products are affected by this vulnerability:
    • 7010 series
    • 7020R Series
    • 7130 series
    • 7150 series
    • 7280E/R/R2 series
    • 7280R3/ 7500R3 / 7800R3 series
    • 7500E/R/R2 series
    • 7050X/X2/X3 series
    • 7060X/X2/X4 series
    • 7160 series 
    • 7170 series
    • 720X series 
    • 7250X/7250X2 series
    • 7260X/X3 series
    • 7300X/X3 series 
    • 7320X series 
    • 7368X4 series
    • CloudVision Portal, virtual appliance or physical appliance
    • CloudEOS Virtual Router, as a VM on-premises or in the public cloud marketplaces
    • CloudEOS Container, that runs in Kubernetes on-premises clusters

  • The following products are not affected:
    • Arista Converged Cloud Fabric and DANZ Monitoring Fabric (Formerly Big Switch Nodes for BCF and BMF)
    • Arista Wireless Access Points
    • Awake Security Solutions
    • CloudVision eXchange
    • CloudVision Wi-Fi (on-premise and cloud service delivery)
    • CloudVision as a Service

Symptoms

I) Vulnerable Configuration

1) On systems running EOS:

a) For gRIBI, Octa and OpenConfig:
For the first step, confirm if there is any SSL profile present in the running-configuration with client certificate authentication enabled:

Switch#show running-config section management security
management security
   ssl profile test
      trust certificate certificate_name


In the above example, a SSL profile “test” has been configured. The “trust certificate certificate_name” piece of configuration indicates that client certificate authentication is enabled in the profile.

 

Next, confirm if any of the SSL profiles with client certificate authentication enabled have been applied to the following features:

(i) Confirm if gRIBI has been configured along with a SSL profile.

Switch#show management api gribi
Enabled:                Yes
Server:                 running on port 6040
SSL Profile:            test

 

If yes, confirm that the SSL profile has client certificate authentication enabled.

(ii) Or confirm if management api gnmi has been configured along with a SSL profile with client certificate authentication enabled:

Switch#show management api gnmi
Enabled:            Yes
Server:             running on port 50051, in default VRF
SSL Profile:        test
QoS DSCP:           none

 

If yes, confirm that the SSL profile has client certificate authentication enabled.

Note: Step (ii) covers the check for both Octa and OpenConfig.

b) For TerminAttr

For the first step, confirm if TerminAttr is running:

Switch#show daemon TerminAttr 
Process: TerminAttr (running with PID 4060)
Uptime: 2 days, 3:48:28 (Start time: Sun Jan 31 06:00:43 2021)
No configuration options stored.

 

Note: The TerminAttr Process ID (PID) will differ from what is highlighted in the above example.

If TerminAttr is running, the corresponding version can be checked via the following

Switch#show version detail | grep TerminAttr-core
TerminAttr-core      v1.12.0         1

 

Once the TerminAttr version has been checked, the following steps can be followed to determine if the system is vulnerable:

 

i) Confirm that the TerminAttr daemon configuration has the “-grpcaddr” and “-clientcafile” flags configured:

Switch#show running-config section TerminAttr
daemon TerminAttr
exec /usr/bin/TerminAttr --disableaaa -taillogs -grpcaddr=test/0.0.0.0:6042 
-allowed_ips=0.0.0.0/0 -procfsperiod=60s -cpu_counters_expiration=60 
-clientcafile=path_to_certificate
no shutdown

 

The presence of these flags indicate that client certificate authentication has been enabled for TerminAttr. 

 

ii) Or confirm that the “-cvaddr” or “-ingestaddr” flags are configured. If yes, verify that the “-cvauth” or “-ingestauth” flags are NOT set to “none”: 

Switch#show running-config section TerminAttr
daemon TerminAttr
exec /mnt/flash/TerminAttr -cvaddr=10.10.10.100:443 -cvcompression=gzip -taillogs 
-grpcaddr 0.0.0.0:6042 --autocert=true 
--cvauth=certs,/persist/secure/cloudvision/enroll.crt,/persist/secure/cloudvision/private.pem
no shutdown

 

In this example, the “-cvaddr” flag is configured and the “--cvauth” flag is NOT set to none. 

2) On CloudVision Portal Servers:

Confirm if the version of CVP running is among the list of affected versions mentioned in the  “Affected Software” section:

  • Login to the CVP server
  • Navigate to /cv/settings/general
  • Confirm the version of  CVP running:

Security Update 62 

As seen in the above example, 2020.2.4 is the CVP version running on the server and is included in the list of CVP versions to which the vulnerability is applicable. 

 

3) On 7130 systems running MOS:

Confirm if a docker container has been configured via “show running-configuration”: 

Example:

docker container foo run image registry.example.com/busybox:latest
 

II) Determining if the vulnerability has been hit:

If the vulnerability has been exploited, the following crash log may be observed on affected products:

panic: impossible [recovered] 
       panic: impossible 
goroutine 195 [running]: 
       runtime/panic.go:969 +0x1b9 
math /big.nat.divRecursiveStep(0xc0000da400, 0x39, 0x3d, 0xc000091080, 0xa8, 0xad, 0xc00064c000, 0x70, 0x7534, 0x0, ...) 
       math /big/nat.go:951 +0x139a 
math/big.nat.divRecursive(0xc0000da400, 0x39, 0x3d, 0xc000091080, 0xa9, 0xad, 0xc00064c000, 0x70, 0x7534) 
       math /big/nat.go:828 +0x17e 
math/big.nat.divLarge(0xc000264000, 0x10, 0x14, 0xc000264000, 0x10, 0x14, 0xc000090b00, 0xa8, 0xab, 0xc00011b000, ...) 
       math /big/nat.go:727 +0x412 
math/big.nat.div(0xc000264000, 0x10, 0x14, 0xc000264000, 0x10, 0x14, 0xc000090b00, 0xa8, 0xab, 0xc00011b000, ...) 
       math /big/nat.go:672 +0x410

Figure-1: Stack trace

 

Note that the stack trace may vary from case to case, however if the highlighted portion of the trace (i.e. “math”) is present, it is a strong indicator that the vulnerability has been hit. The following steps list the commands that can be used to identify the crash log on the affected products.

1) On systems running EOS:

An EOS agent crash may be observed as a result of an exploit. To identify agent crashes, navigate to the /var/log/agents directory in the bash shell and individually view the following agent logs by running “cat agent_name-PID”. The relevant agent names are as follows: 

  • TerminAttr-PID
  • Octa-PID
  • OpenConfig-PID
  • gRIBI-PID

An example of how the agent log can be viewed is as follows:

“cat TerminAttr-3553”

In this example, 3553 is the PID (Process Identifier).

-OR-

Run “show agent logs crash” in the CLI. The output of this command should have sections of the logs shown in Figure-1 above highlighted in yellow.

 

2) On CloudVision Portal Servers (via the CLI shell):

(i) Execute “cat /cvpi/apps/aeris/logs/ingest.stderr.log”

(ii) Execute “cat /cvpi/apps/aeris/logs/api-server.stderr.log”

Note: For CVP clusters, perform the above check on all 3 nodes. 

 

 The output of this command should have sections of the logs shown in Figure-1 above highlighted in yellow.

3) On 7130 systems running MOS:

Execute “journalctl -u docker.service”

The output of this command should have sections of the logs shown in Figure-1 above highlighted in yellow.

 

Mitigation

 

As a security best practice, TLS connections should only be accepted from trusted sources. The following options are available to restrict incoming TLS connections:

 

1) On systems running EOS:

 

Configure a non-default Control-Plane ACL with the following rule present:

permit tcp 10.10.10.0/24 any eq 443

In this example, HTTPs connections (i.e. connections to port 443) will only be accepted if sourced from the 10.10.10.0/24 subnet. The following are the default service ports for the affected features:

 

(i) gRIBI - 6040
(ii) OpenConfig and Octa - 6030
(iii) TerminAttr - 6042

The relevant service ports will need to be specified in the ACL rule. 

Note:
i) If a different TCP port is used on the Switch for the incoming TLS connection from what is referenced above, modify the port number in the ACL rule.

ii) For TerminAttr, ensure that the connection to Cloudvision is established over a trusted network. 

 

2) On CloudVison Portal servers (via the CLI shell):

Configure the following iptable rules on the CVP server(s) to permit incoming TCP connections to ports 9910 and 8443 from a specified subnet only:

sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -s 10.10.10.0/24 --dport 9910 -m conntrack --ctstate NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
 
sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -s 10.10.10.0/24 --dport 8443 -m conntrack --ctstate NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT

 

In this example, TCP connections to ports 9910 and 8443 will be accepted only if sourced from the 10.10.10.0/24 subnet.

Note:
These iptable rules are not persistent across reboots and must be applied on a reboot of the system.

3) On 7130 systems running MOS:

There is no workaround available to mitigate the issue on 7130 systems running MOS.  As a security best practice, ensure that TLS connections are made to trusted devices.

For the final resolution, please refer to the next section which lists the details of the remediated software versions.

 

Resolution

The recommended resolution is to upgrade to a  remediated software release during a maintenance window. This vulnerability is tracked by the following BUGs:

1) EOS

  • TerminAttr
    • The vulnerability in EOS systems running TerminAttr is tracked by BUG538523.
    • Fixed in TerminAttr-v1.12.1 
  • OpenConfig/Octa
    • The vulnerability in EOS systems running OpenConfig and Octa is tracked by BUG538500.
    • Fixed in EOS-4.25.1
  • gRIBI
    • The vulnerability in EOS systems running gRIBI is tracked by BUG539212.
    • Fixed in EOS-4.25.2

 

2) CloudVision Portal

The vulnerability in CVP is tracked by BUG541154 and the fix will be available in the following releases:

  • 2020.3.1
  • 2021.1.0

 

3) MOS
The vulnerability in systems running MOS is tracked by BUG MOS-1729. This has been fixed in the following release:

  • MOS-0.30.1

For More Information

 

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