VeloCloud Orchestrator OS Command Injection

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• arista velocloud orchestrator5.2.0 and later · before 5.2.3.14
• arista velocloud orchestrator6.1.0 and later · before 6.1.3.4
• arista velocloud orchestrator6.4.0 and later · before 6.4.2.4
• arista velocloud orchestrator7.0.0

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Arista). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

• Arista Networks VeloCloud Orchestrator On-Prem

  • 5.2.0 and later · before 5.2.3.14affected
  • 6.1.0 and later · before 6.1.3.4affected
  • 6.4.0 and later · before 6.4.2.4affected
  • 7.0.0 and later · before 7.0.0.1affected

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2026-93952Security Advisory 0183KEV
  68This week
• CVE-2020-3973The VeloCloud Orchestrator does not apply correct input validation which allows for blind SQL-injection.
  35Monitor

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

User input is inserted as text into a shell command. The shell may interpret special characters in the input as part of the command.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1const host = req.body.host;2exec("ping -c 1 " + host, onResult);

1const host = req.body.host;2if (!/^[a-z0-9.-]{1,253}$/i.test(host)) return res.sendStatus(400);3execFile("ping", ["-c", "1", host], onResult);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.