{"id":"CVE-2025-5090","title":"CVX is not resilient to unexpected messages from a connected switch","summary":"CVX is not resilient to unexpected messages from a connected switch. This leads to agent crashes on CVX causing instability in the CVX cluster. An attacker could use this behavior to create a denial of service (DoS) scenario. Note that t…","severity":"medium","cvss":6.5,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","cwe":["CWE-20"],"published":"2026-06-05","updated":"2026-09-30","sourceUpdated":"2026-09-30T21:10:00.190","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-5090","references":[{"url":"https://www.arista.com/en/support/advisories-notices/security-advisory/22868-security-advisory-0126","label":"psirt@arista.com"}],"tags":["nvd"],"epss":0.00235,"epssPercentile":0.13015,"ingestedAt":"2026-09-30T21:25:07.737Z","slug":"CVE-2025-5090","body":"## Overview\n\nCVX is not resilient to unexpected messages from a connected switch. This leads to agent crashes on CVX causing instability in the CVX cluster. An attacker could use this behavior to create a denial of service (DoS) scenario. Note that this would require the attacker to have a high privilege access to the connected switch to be able to send custom TCP packets to the CVX.\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.","depth":"sunlit","depthScore":36,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":35.8,"likelihood":0,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}