# CVE-2025-6980 — Arista Edge Threat Management - Arista Next Generation Firewall

> As of 2025-10-23, CVE-2025-6980 is a HIGH-severity vulnerability in Arista Edge Threat Management - Arista Next Generation Firewall, CVSS v3.1 7.5, EPSS 0.4% (39.7th percentile). Threadlinqs Intelligence links 1 tracked threat campaign to CVE-2025-6980, most recently “CVE-2025-6978: Authenticated Diagnostics Command Injection Leading to Root RCE in Arista NG Firewall”.

**Last updated:** 2025-10-23

## What is CVE-2025-6980?

Captive Portal can expose sensitive information

The record classifies CVE-2025-6980 under weakness class [CWE-200](https://intel.threadlinqs.com/cwe/CWE-200). Its CVSS v3 base vector states that the flaw is reachable remotely over the network, needs no prior authentication, needs no user interaction, and has high impact on confidentiality. 1 affected-product entry is recorded, across 1 vendor, listed below. The identifier was first published 370 days ago.

## Severity and exploitation probability

- **CVSS v3.1 base score:** 7.5 — HIGH (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N`)
- **EPSS (FIRST):** 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 39.7% of all scored CVEs
- **CISA KEV:** Not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
- **Threadlinqs priority:** 7.3/10 — a Threadlinqs composite of the CVSS base score, the EPSS percentile and public exploit availability
- **Published:** 2025-10-23

## Is CVE-2025-6980 being exploited?

Weaponised exploit code for CVE-2025-6980 is publicly available. 1 public proof-of-concept repository is tracked for this identifier. It currently carries a trending score of 23 in the Threadlinqs vulnerability feed.

- [BishopFox/CVE-2025-6980-check](https://github.com/BishopFox/CVE-2025-6980-check) (github)

## Affected products and versions

- [Arista Networks](https://intel.threadlinqs.com/vendors/arista-networks): Arista Edge Threat Management - Arista Next Generation Firewall

## How to fix CVE-2025-6980

No vendor patch reference has been recorded for CVE-2025-6980 in the tracked sources. Follow the references below for a fix, and treat the products listed above as exposed until the vendor states otherwise.

## Threat activity tracking CVE-2025-6980

1 tracked threat in the Threadlinqs corpus references CVE-2025-6980, either in the campaign’s CVE list or as an indicator on the campaign record.

- [CVE-2025-6978: Authenticated Diagnostics Command Injection Leading to Root RCE in Arista NG Firewall](https://intel.threadlinqs.com/threat/TL-2026-1550) — HIGH · 2026-07-19

## Sources

Enriched from CVE.org, FIRST EPSS, public proof-of-concept repositories. Last verified by Threadlinqs on 2026-10-10.

**Other references**

- [https](https://https//www.arista.com/en/support/advisories-notices/security-advisory/22535-security-advisory-0123)

Canonical: https://intel.threadlinqs.com/cve/CVE-2025-6980
Full detection coverage and IOCs for threats exploiting CVE-2025-6980 via the Threadlinqs MCP server (Purple tier): https://intel.threadlinqs.com/mcp