CVE-2026-19641

medium
Assigned by CNA: arista
Published 2026-09-15 · Modified 2026-09-15
CVSS v3
5.3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS v4 NEW
6.9
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
VIR risk
5.3

Description

On affected platforms running Arista EOS with password authentication configured, a specially crafted password can create orphan authentication sessions. Repeated exploitation of this issue can exhaust available authentication resources, resulting in legitimate users being unable to log in to the device. This issue was discovered internally by Arista, and the company is not aware of any malicious exploitation of this vulnerability in customer networks.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
63%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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References

CWEs

CWE-116

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.