On affected platforms running Arista EOS with Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) configured to use keyed MD5 or keyed SHA1 authentication, an unauthenticated attacker with network adjacency (direct or multi-hop) to a BFD-enabled interface can send a specially crafted BFD packet resulting in a system reboot.
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Description On affected platforms running Arista EOS with Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) configured to use keyed MD5 or keyed SHA1 authentication, an unauthenticated attacker with network adjacency (direct or multi-hop) to a BFD-enabled interface can send a specially crafted BFD packet resulting in a system reboot.
Title Security Advisory 0206
Weaknesses CWE-787
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 8.6, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 8.9, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Arista

Published:

Updated: 2026-11-10T20:10:00.505Z

Reserved: 2026-11-03T11:27:14.150Z

Link: CVE-2026-121368

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-11-10T20:18:56.123

Modified: 2026-11-10T20:18:56.123

Link: CVE-2026-121368

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