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CVE-2021-28500 Talkative Marmot For those of you who that don’t want to read the whole back story and just want to see what CVE-2021-28500 (#TalkativeMarmot) is, you can review Arista’s full detailed security advisory here. Essentially, this is an authentication bypass of OpenConfig transport protocols using local accounts with nopassword. In short, the OpenConfig project is a working group that is trying to implement a vendor neutral common data model for configuring and managing networks....

Hello, welcome to my blog. I decided it was about time to start one. I’ve been toying with the idea for a very long time as I’d like somewhere to write about projects or topics I’m interested in without all the faff of WordPress. So instead I set up a Hugo site that deploys to the Digital Ocean App stack from Gitlab… so yeah none of that faff. I have several core topics in mind: Networking, Automation and Security....