CVE-2026-79870 (GCVE-0-2026-79870)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-22 19:05
Modified
2026-10-23 19:13
Severity ?
9.6 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
An authentication bypass vulnerability in the PAPI protocol of AOS-8 could allow an unauthenticated adjacent attacker to circumvent existing authentication controls. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to gain administrative access, modify system configurations, access or manipulate sensitive data, and disrupt network operations.
References
Impacted products
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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