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    "title": "Security Advisory 211",
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  "vulnerabilities": [
    {
      "cve": "CVE-2026-120978",
      "id": {
        "system_name": "Arista Bug ID",
        "text": "1924022"
      },
      "notes": [
        {
          "category": "description",
          "text": "On affected Arista EOS platforms running Border Gateway Protocol with Link State ( BGP-LS) and configured with the Dynamic Path Selection (DPS) consumer role, an attacker who has established an authenticated BGP-LS session with the device can send a crafted message to cause the BGP agent to restart unexpectedly. An Arista Pathfinder deployment is not required.",
          "title": "CVE Description"
        },
        {
          "category": "other",
          "text": "**In order to be vulnerable to CVE-2026-120978, The following two conditions must be met:** At least one BGP-LS peer session is established, and Role(s) includes Consumer (DPS).\n\n1. BGP-LS configured\n\n```\nswitch(config)#show bgp link-state summary\nBGP summary information for VRF default\nRouter identifier 0.0.0.1, local AS number 300\nNeighbor Status Codes: m - Under maintenance\n  Neighbor V AS           MsgRcvd   MsgSent  InQ OutQ  Up/Down State   NlriRcd NlriAcc NlriAdv\n  12.0.0.3 4 300               82        83    0    0 01:02:33 Estab   0      0      1\nswitch(config)#\n```\n\n2. DPS consumer is enabled:\n\n```python\nswitch#show bgp instance | section Address family Link State:\nAddress family Link State:\n  Role(s): Consumer (DPS)\n```\nIf BGP-LS is not configured or no peers are established, the device is not vulnerable. \n\n**The configuration is not affected if at least one of the following outputs matches:**\n\na. link-state is not configured.\n\n```\nswitch(config-router-bgp)#show bgp link-state summary\nBGP summary information for VRF default\nRouter identifier 0.0.0.1, local AS number 300\nNeighbor Status Codes: m - Under maintenance\n  Neighbor V AS           MsgRcvd   MsgSent  InQ OutQ  Up/Down State   NlriRcd NlriAcc NlriAdv\n```\n\nb. No BGP-LS or BGP-LS DPS consumer role is configured\n\n```python\nswitch#show bgp instance | section Address family Link State:\nAddress family Link State:\n  Role(s): \nswitch#\n```",
          "title": "1924022: Required Config for Exploitation"
        }
      ],
      "product_status": {
        "first_affected": [
          "CSAFPID-7"
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        "fixed": [
          "CSAFPID-1",
          "CSAFPID-2",
          "CSAFPID-4",
          "CSAFPID-5",
          "CSAFPID-6"
        ]
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      "references": [
        {
          "category": "external",
          "summary": "MITRE",
          "url": "https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2026-120978"
        }
      ],
      "remediations": [
        {
          "category": "vendor_fix",
          "details": "Fixed in EOS version 4.33.11",
          "product_ids": [
            "CSAFPID-6"
          ]
        },
        {
          "category": "vendor_fix",
          "details": "Fixed in EOS version 4.34.9",
          "product_ids": [
            "CSAFPID-1"
          ]
        },
        {
          "category": "vendor_fix",
          "details": "Fixed in EOS version 4.35.7",
          "product_ids": [
            "CSAFPID-2"
          ]
        },
        {
          "category": "vendor_fix",
          "details": "Fixed in EOS version 4.36.3",
          "product_ids": [
            "CSAFPID-5"
          ]
        },
        {
          "category": "vendor_fix",
          "details": "Fixed in EOS version 4.37.0",
          "product_ids": [
            "CSAFPID-4"
          ]
        },
        {
          "category": "none_available",
          "details": "Not fixed in EOS version 1.0.0",
          "product_ids": [
            "CSAFPID-7"
          ]
        },
        {
          "category": "mitigation",
          "details": "There are no configuration-level mitigations that fully resolve this issue without upgrading software."
        }
      ],
      "scores": [
        {
          "cvss_v3": {
            "baseScore": 6.5,
            "baseSeverity": "MEDIUM",
            "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
            "version": "3.1"
          },
          "products": [
            "CSAFPID-1",
            "CSAFPID-5",
            "CSAFPID-7",
            "CSAFPID-6",
            "CSAFPID-2",
            "CSAFPID-4"
          ]
        }
      ],
      "title": "CVE-2026-120978"
    }
  ]
}