API access using https

HighLevel 2Automatedarista-eos

Description

The Arista Command eAPI is a simple and complete API that allows you to configure and monitor your Arista switches. Once the API is enabled, the switch accepts HTTPS requests containing a list of industry standard CLI commands, and responds with machine-readable output and errors serialized in JSON (served over HTTP or HTTPS). HTTP can be enabled but should be left disabled. EOS API provides structured output more suitable for programmatic parsing than cli scraping. If the API is enabled, it should only use https, not http. Fails if eAPI has plain 'protocol http' enabled. Audited against the output of 'show running-config' (not 'show running-config all').

How it is checked

Audit method: Configuration pattern

Pattern: (?m)^management api http-commands[^\n]*\n(?:[ \t][^\n]*\n)*?[ \t]+protocol http(?: |\r?$)

How it is fixed

Fix method: Guidance or infrastructure patch

! management api http-commands no shutdown default protocol http vrf MGMT no shutdown

Properties

Operating systems: Any
Tags: arista-eosnetworkmanagement-plane
Reference: CIS Arista EOS Benchmark v1.0.0 - 2.9 API access using https

Check this host

Run this on a machine you are allowed to audit. The scan is read-only.

shell

tmaegis scan --target arista-eos --level 2