CVE-2026-73464 (GCVE-0-2026-73464)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-16 08:32
Modified
2026-09-17 03:56
Severity ?
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
8.7 (High) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
8.7 (High) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-94 - Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
Summary
On affected platforms running Arista EOS with gRPC Network Management Interface (gNMI) enabled, a specially crafted request could allow a malicious authenticated client with gRPC Network Management Interface (gNMI) access to execute arbitrary code with root privileges on the switch.
References
| URL | Tags | |
|---|---|---|
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arista Networks | EOS |
Version: 4.29.0F < 4.30.0F Version: 4.30.0F < 4.31.0F Version: 4.31.0F < 4.32.0F Version: 4.32.0F < 4.33.0F Version: 4.33.0F < Version: 4.34.0F < Version: 4.35.0F < Version: 4.36.0F < |
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