CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-73466

MediumCVSS 6.3
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.09%

1th percentile - higher than 1% of all known CVEs

Summary

On Arista EOS platforms, under certain circumstances, user passwords may be written in cleartext to log files when specialized non-standard debugging trace levels are explicitly enabled. Exploitation requires authenticated local administrative access to the device shell.

Risk Assessment

Cleartext passwords in logs can be read by anyone with log access, leading to credential disclosure and potential privilege escalation.

Recommendation

Avoid enabling non-standard debugging trace levels in production and restrict access to log files.

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Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS