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On affected platforms running Arista EOS with IGMP (Internet Group Management Protocol) snooping configured (enabled by default on all VLANs), a network-adjacent unauthenticated attacker can send malformed network packets on an affected VLAN to cause the IGMP snooping agent to terminate unexpectedly. This results in a temporary disruption of multicast traffic management, which may cause multicast traffic to be flooded to all ports of the affected VLAN until the service recovers. Repeated exploitation could result in a prolonged loss of intended multicast forwarding behavior.

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IGMP snooping agent is instantiated by default on EOS. No configuration is required.

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There is no mitigation or workaround available. Disabling IGMP snooping will NOT mitigate the issue.

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The recommended resolution is to upgrade to a remediated software version at your earliest convenience. CVE-2026-73462 has been fixed in the following releases:

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