On affected platforms running Arista EOS, under certain circumstances plaintext user passwords

published 2026-09-15 last mo. modified 2026-11-03 8d ago also EUVD-2026-79024

cvss: 6.3; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.1%; EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 2%
public exploits: 0; none known

On affected platforms running Arista EOS, under certain circumstances user passwordss may be written in clear text to log files during operations when specialized non-standard debugging trace levels are explicitly enabled.

To exploit these vulnerabilities, a malicious actor must already possess authenticated local administrative access to the device shell, and specialized non-standard debugging trace levels must be explicitly enabled.

This issue was discovered internally by Arista, and the company is not aware of any malicious exploitation of this vulnerability in customer networks.

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total
Assessed: last mo. (2026-09-16)

Exploit prediction

0.13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 2% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-11).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	6.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA	4.0	6.0	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
CNA	4.0	6.0	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Affected products

Arista Networks EOS

Classification

Weakness

CWE-532 Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

References

arista.com /en/support/advisories-notices/security-advisory/24709-security-advisory-0153
vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2026-73466
NVD CVE-2026-73466

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