CVE-2025-8872A specially crafted packet can cause the OSFPv3 process to have high CPU utilization which may result in the OSFPv3 process being restarted
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On affected platforms running Arista EOS with OSPFv3 configured, a specially crafted packet can cause the OSFPv3 process to have high CPU utilization which may result in the OSFPv3 process being restarted. This may cause disruption in the OSFPv3 routes on the switch. This issue was discovered internally by Arista and is not aware of any malicious uses of this issue in customer networks.
- CVSS
- 6.5 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-400
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- Arista
- NVD analysis
- Deferred
- Record last updated
- Dec 16, 2025
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
Arista Networks EOS arista_networks:eos (from the name) | from 4.34.0 through 4.34.1F; from 4.33.0 through 4.33.4M; from 4.32.0 through 4.32.7M; from 4.31.0 through 4.31.8M; through 4.31.0 | CNA record |
References
- https://www.arista.com/en/support/advisories-notices/security-advisory/23115-security-advisory-0128
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