CVE-2026-79872 (GCVE-0-2026-79872)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-22 19:05
Modified
2026-10-23 19:13
Severity ?
9.4 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
Summary
A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the underlying operating system of AOS that could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution by an unauthenticated remote attacker. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability results in the ability to execute arbitrary code as a privileged user on the underlying operating system.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) ArubaOS (AOS) Version: 10.8.0.0   ≤ 10.8.1.1
Version: 10.7.0.0   ≤ 10.7.2.6
Version: 10.4.0.0   ≤ 10.4.1.13
Version: 8.13.0.0   ≤ 8.13.3.0
Version: 8.10.0.0   ≤ 8.10.0.23
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