CVE-2025-8873
Arista EOS Dataplane Denial of Service via Malformed IPsec Packet
02 Description
Arista EOS Dataplane Denial of Service via Malformed IPsec Packet
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Assessed, none found. CISA's assessment recorded neither public exploit code nor evidence of exploitation when it was made.
- SSVC decision
- ExploitationnoneCISA recorded no public exploit code and no evidence of exploitation.
- AutomatableyesAn attacker can reliably automate reconnaissance through exploitation, so this scales.
- Technical ImpactpartialSuccessful exploitation gives limited control of the vulnerable component.
- EPSS probability
- 0.38% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 32.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 8.7 (CVSS v4.0), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- NVD analysis status
- Awaiting Analysis. NVD last modified this record on 2026-07-22.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2026-06-04 23:04Z4 MO AGO
- Last updated
- 2026-06-05 18:31Z4 MO AGO
- Reserved
- 2025-08-11
- Assigning CNA
- Arista
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- High (CVSS 8.7)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-1286Improper Validation of Syntactic Correctness of InputBase
- Data version
- 5.2
- Document digest
- 6ceb662d1c884e6cf586e647502757c12033dc2cea4472423e766eaff3afe6dd
05 Affected products
06 References
07 Remediation
The recommended resolution is to upgrade to a remediated software version at your earliest convenience. Arista recommends customers move to the latest version of each release that contains all the fixes listed below. For more information about upgrading see https://www.arista.com/en/support/toi/tcam-profile?pn=ipsec-egress-padding-removal . This may momentarily impact traffic. Apply the configuration found at the url to create a TCAM profile and then apply the TCAM profile as shown below. switch(config)#hardware tcam switch(config-tcam)#system profile ipsec-egress-padding-removal ! WARNING! Changing TCAM profile will cause forwarding agent(s) to exit and restart. All traffic through the forwarding chip managed by the restarting forwarding agent will be dropped. Proceed [y/n]y switch(config-tcam)# To ensure the TCAM profile has been applied, run the following command and verify the Configuration and Status values match ipsec-egress-padding-removal: switch(config-tcam)#show hardware tcam profile Configuration Status FixedSystem ipsec-egress-padding-removal ipsec-egress-padding-removal ‘ipsec-egress-padding-removal’ differs from the ‘ipsec’ TCAM profile in two ways: * Egress IP ACLs are disabled * Fixes for BUG603398 and BUG1246592 are applied