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title: "CVE-2026-86106: Edge - Privilege Escalation"
description: "Edge units with HA enabled contain a privilege escalation vulnerability caused by unauthenticated access to sensitive HA peer functions over the private HA interconnect, letting unauthenticated actors execute elevated commands."
url: https://panop.io/threat-heartbeat/CVE-2026-86106/
---

# CVE-2026-86106 Edge - Privilege Escalation

Edge units with HA enabled contain a privilege escalation vulnerability caused by unauthenticated access to sensitive HA peer functions over the private HA interconnect, letting unauthenticated actors execute elevated commands.

CVSS base score 9.6 /10

Critical

CISA KEV

Not listed

Public exploit

None known

EPSS

0.36% chance of exploitation in 30 days

[View the NVD record ↗](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-86106)

## Details

Type

Privilege Escalation

Impact

Privilege Escalation

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Published

16 September 2026

Updated

15 October 2026

Weakness

[CWE-306](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/306.html)

## Vendor fix

Restrict network access to the private HA interconnect and apply latest security updates.

Patching closes this CVE. It does not tell you which of your systems run the affected version, or what else is exposed alongside them.

## References

- [https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-86106](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-86106)
- [https://www.arista.com/en/support/advisories-notices/security-advisory/24735-security-advisory-0179](https://www.arista.com/en/support/advisories-notices/security-advisory/24735-security-advisory-0179)

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- Whether an attacker can actually reach and exploit it
- The misconfigurations that never get a CVE number
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