CVE-2026-73456

Under certain circumstances on affected platforms running Arista EOS with gRPC Network Packet Sampling Interface (gNPSI) enabled, an unauthenticated gNPSI client can craft a malicious request to allow arbitrary code execution, granting an attacker full administrative control over the compromised switch.

  • Published Sep 16, 2026
  • CVSS 9.2 critical
  • 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS)

Affected software

CVE-2026-73456 at the National Vulnerability Database