CVE-2026-79857 (GCVE-0-2026-79857)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-22 19:05
Modified
2026-10-24 03:55
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
There is a command injection vulnerability in the PAPI protocol (Aruba's access point management protocol) of AOS-8 that could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution by sending specially crafted packets to the affected UDP port. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability results in the ability to execute arbitrary code as a privileged user on the underlying operating system.
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Vendor Product Version
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) ArubaOS (AOS) Version: 8.13.0.0   ≤ 8.13.3.0
Version: 8.10.0.0   ≤ 8.10.0.23
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