Critical Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator Vulnerability Exploited as Zero-Day
Impacting on-premises deployments, the OS command injection allows attackers to access privileged internal functionality. The post Critical Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator Vulnerability Exploited as Zero-Day appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Arista Networks on Monday released patches for a critical-severity OS injection vulnerability in the VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO) centralized management platform, warning that it has been exploited in the wild as a zero-day.
The security defect is tracked as CVE-2026-16812, has a maximum CVSS score of 10, and could be exploited remotely to access privileged functionality intended for internal use only.
“Successful exploitation may compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the orchestrator and data managed by the orchestrator,” Arista Networks notes in its advisory.
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