MinorCritical vulnerability
CVE-2026-120977 (CVSS 7.1)
NVD · officialPublished Nov 10, 2026Risk 23/100
On affected platforms running Arista EOS with 802.1X with Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) device profiling enabled, a network-adjacent attacker can send a crafted DHCP packet to force the device to record a spoofed device profile. This may potentially allow the authenticated supplicant to acquire unauthorized access to a network segment with elevated privileges.
Technical details
CVSS
7.1
AV:AdjacentAC:LowPR:NoneUI:None
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