HPE patches Aruba AOS-8 SSH authentication bypass and dozens of other flaws
Bulletin HPESBNW05162 covers 72 AOS-8 and AOS-10 flaws, several scored CVSS 10.0 for unauthenticated remote code execution.
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CVE-2026-79857
Unauthenticated command injection in Aruba AOS-8 PAPI
- CVSS 3.1
- 9.8 critical
- EPSS
- —
- Published
- ·
- Modified
AI analysisSummaries by Vani AI
A command-injection flaw in the PAPI access-point management protocol of HPE Aruba AOS-8 lets a remote attacker send crafted packets to the affected UDP port with no authentication or user interaction. Successful exploitation runs arbitrary code as a privileged user on the underlying operating system. AOS-8 systems exposing that UDP port are affected; HPE has not listed affected builds.
What to do: Apply HPE's update for CVE-2026-79857. HPE has not named a fixed version or workaround.
| Product | Affected |
|---|---|
| HPE Aruba AOS-8 | — |
Estimated exposure
No basis for an estimate.
Order-of-magnitude estimate by the model from install counts, market share and public scan data it knows; verify before quoting.
Description · NVD
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.
- Weakness
- CWE-77
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H