PHP has various global state that temporarily points into request memory. In some scenarios, global state may not be correctly reset, or may be repopulated after being reset. The global state may then refer to request memory even after it has been freed. Subsequent requests may read or branch on this stale state before it is fully initialized. Multiple strategies can trigger this condition and produce remote code execution (RCE).
On affected platforms running Arista EOS where a tunnel decapsulation configuration—such as VXLAN (Virtual Extensible LAN), decap-groups, or a GRE (Generic Routing Encapsulation) tunnel interface—is present, the switch will incorrectly decapsulate and forward other unexpected tunneled packet with a destination IP matching its configured decapsulation IP. This occurs because the switch does not verify the tunnel protocol type, potentially leading to the unexpected processing of non-configured tunnel traffic. This issue has been reported as being exploited in the wild.
via cve_org
| Version | Type | Source | Base | Exp | Imp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | Primary | cve.org | 5.8 | — | — |
| 3.1 | Secondary | NVD | 5.8 | 3.9 | 1.4 |
| 4.0 | Primary | cve.org | 6.9 | — | — |
| 4.0 | Secondary | NVD | 6.9 | — | — |
| 4.0 | Secondary | ENISA EUVD | 6.9 | — | — |