On affected Arista access points with Wireless Intrusion Prevention System (WIPS) active, an unauthenticated attacker within radio frequency (RF) proximity can send a crafted frame to crash the sensor service, disabling WIPS monitoring on the access point, or potentially achieve remote code execution. No wireless association or authentication is required.

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Fixes

Solution

CVE-2026-102163 has been fixed in the following releases: - 22.1.1F-61 and later release in the 22.x train - 21.4.0M-12 and later releases in the 21.x train


Workaround

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History

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 20:00:00 +0000

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Description On affected Arista access points with Wireless Intrusion Prevention System (WIPS) active, an unauthenticated attacker within radio frequency (RF) proximity can send a crafted frame to crash the sensor service, disabling WIPS monitoring on the access point, or potentially achieve remote code execution. No wireless association or authentication is required.
Title Security Advisory 0195
Weaknesses CWE-787
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 8.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 8.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Arista

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-06T20:07:33.630Z

Reserved: 2026-09-28T17:45:17.722Z

Link: CVE-2026-102163

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-10-06T20:17:11.533

Modified: 2026-10-06T20:17:11.533

Link: CVE-2026-102163

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