# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-73438"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-16T09:38:57.955Z"
updatedAt: "2026-09-16T18:03:38.266Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-73438"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-73438.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-73438"
title: "Security Advisory 0172"
summary: "On affected platforms running Arista EOS with Open Shortest Path First version 3 (OSPFv3) configured, an unauthenticated attacker on the same OSPFv3 broadcast domain can send a specially crafted set of packets that can cause the Ospf3 agent to restart unexpectedly. The crash results in the loss of all OSPFv3 adjacencies on the affected device and may disrupt routing across the broader OSPF domain until the agent recovers.\n\nThis issue was reported externally by Dravanet Inc., and Arista is not aware of any malicious exploitation of this vulnerability in customer networks."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"4.36.0F","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThanOrEqual":"4.36.1F"},{"version":"4.35.0F","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThanOrEqual":"4.35.5M"},{"version":"4.34.0F","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThanOrEqual":"4.34.7M"},{"version":"4.33.0F","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThanOrEqual":"4.33.9M"},{"version":"1.0.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"4.33.0F"}],"vendor":"Arista Networks","product":"EOS","platforms":["710 Series","720D Series","720XP/722XPM Series","750X Series","7010TX Series","7020R/R4 Series","7130 Series running EOS","7170 Series","7050X3/X4 Series","7060X/X2/X4/X5/X6 Series","7260X/X3 Series","7280R/R2/R3/R4 Series","7300X/X3 Series","7320X Series","7358X4 Series","7368X4 Series","7388X5 Series","7500R/R2/R3 Series","7800R3/R4 Series","7700R4 Series","AWE 5000 Series","AWE 7200R Series","CloudEOS","cEOS-lab","vEOS-lab","CloudVision eXchange, virtual or physical appliance"],"defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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