CVE-2025-8872

Summary

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
Arista NetworksEOS4.34.0 <= 4.34.1Faffected
Arista NetworksEOS4.33.0 <= 4.33.4Maffected
Arista NetworksEOS4.32.0 <= 4.32.7Maffected
Arista NetworksEOS4.31.0 <= 4.31.8Maffected
Arista NetworksEOS0 <= 4.31.0affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-400: CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Workarounds

There is no workaround to mitigate the issue.

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: partial

References