[CVE-2025-6980] Arista NextGen Firewall XSS to RCE Chain
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Summary
Bishop Fox confirms all three Arista NGFW bugs (CVE-2025-6980/6979/6978) are exploitable and patches incomplete: XSS chains to RCE with victim interaction; disable the captive portal until fixes ship.
- CVE
- CVE-2025-6980
- Published
- Collected
--- id: 3853 title: "[CVE-2025-6980] Arista NextGen Firewall XSS to RCE Chain" cve: CVE-2025-6980 source_domain: bishopfox.com source_url: "https://bishopfox.com/blog/arista-nextgen-firewall-xss-to-rce-chain" published_at: "2025-12-04 00:00" tags: ["rce", "xss", "patching", "firewall", "arista", "cve-2025-6978"] phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/3853" lang: en --- # [CVE-2025-6980] Arista NextGen Firewall XSS to RCE Chain ## Summary Bishop Fox confirms all three Arista NGFW bugs (CVE-2025-6980/6979/6978) are exploitable and patches incomplete: XSS chains to RCE with victim interaction; disable the captive portal until fixes ship. ## Intelligence Metadata - **Sources:** bishopfox.com - **CVE:** CVE-2025-6980 - **Published:** 2025-12-04 00:00 - **Original:** https://bishopfox.com/blog/arista-nextgen-firewall-xss-to-rce-chain - **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/3853