# 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-2026-73440"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-16T09:55:14.571Z"
updatedAt: "2026-09-16T13:40:25.872Z"
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-2026-73440"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-73440.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-73440"
title: "Security Advisory 0178"
summary: "On affected platforms running Arista EOS with Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) configured, SNMPv3 local or remote user credentials may be exposed as a one-way hashed, localized key value within the device's running and sanitized configurations. An authenticated user who gains access to this sensitive information could leverage it to perform unauthorized read operations on SNMP tables or to send fraudulent trap notifications to the Network Management System (NMS).\n\nThis issue was discovered internally by Arista, and the company 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":"4.34.7.1M"},{"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","7150 Series","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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