Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Nov 10, 2026

CVE-2026-120978

Description

On affected Arista EOS platforms running Border Gateway Protocol with Link State ( BGP-LS) and configured with the Dynamic Path Selection (DPS) consumer role, an attacker who has established an authenticated BGP-LS session with the device can send a crafted message to cause the BGP agent to restart unexpectedly. An Arista Pathfinder deployment is not required.

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Affected products

Arista/Eosllm-fuzzy

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

www.arista.com/en/support/advisories-notices/security-advisory/25033-security-advisory-0211nvd

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