To exploit these vulnerabilities, a malicious actor must already possess authenticated local administrative access to the device shell, and specialized non-standard debugging trace levels must be explicitly enabled.
This issue was discovered internally by Arista, and the company is not aware of any malicious exploitation of this vulnerability in customer networks.
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Solution
CVE-2026-73465 has been fixed in the following releases: * 4.36.2F and later releases in the 4.36.x train. * 4.35.5M and later releases in the 4.35.x train. * 4.34.8M and later releases in the 4.34.x train. * 4.33.10M and later releases in the 4.33.x train.
Workaround
This vulnerability may lead to exposed private keys on log files. As such, the following messages may appear at /var/log/agents/ConfigAgent-*: 2026-05-07 02:42:18.537932 18813 MgmtSecuritySslCertK 3 validateRsaPrivateKey start: -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- 2026-05-07 02:42:18.537932 18813 MgmtSecuritySslCertK 3 _getPemCount start: -----BEGIN EC PRIVATE KEY----- These messages can be found with the following grep command, when run from the bash shell: switch# grep "MgmtSecuritySslCertK" /var/log/agents/ConfigAgent-* | grep "PRIVATE KEY---"
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| Description | On affected platforms running Arista EOS, under certain circumstances plaintext private keys may be written in clear text to log files during operations when specialized non-standard debugging trace levels are explicitly enabled. To exploit these vulnerabilities, a malicious actor must already possess authenticated local administrative access to the device shell, and specialized non-standard debugging trace levels must be explicitly enabled. This issue was discovered internally by Arista, and the company is not aware of any malicious exploitation of this vulnerability in customer networks. | |
| Title | On affected platforms running Arista EOS, under certain circumstances plaintext private keys | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-532 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Arista
Published:
Updated: 2026-09-15T19:27:14.891Z
Reserved: 2026-08-12T16:47:18.121Z
Link: CVE-2026-73465
Updated: 2026-09-15T19:27:11.319Z
Status : Received
Published: 2026-09-15T19:17:39.150
Modified: 2026-09-15T20:17:43.793
Link: CVE-2026-73465
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