HPE patches critical Aruba AOS flaws that can fully control devices
Eight CVEs score CVSS 10.0; unauthenticated AOS-8 flaws can run commands as root, and HPE knew of no public exploit code.
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CVE-2026-79860
Unauthenticated buffer overflow RCE in Aruba AOS-8 PAPI
- CVSS 3.1
- 9.8 critical
- EPSS
- —
- Published
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- Modified
AI analysisSummaries by Vani AI
A buffer overflow in an underlying service of HPE Aruba AOS-8 can be triggered by specially crafted packets sent to the PAPI access-point management protocol on UDP port 8211. No authentication or user interaction is required. Successful exploitation lets an attacker run arbitrary code as a privileged user on the underlying operating system of affected AOS-8 devices.
What to do: Apply HPE's update for CVE-2026-79860. No workaround is stated.
| 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
Buffer overflow vulnerabilities exist in an underlying service of AOS-8 that could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution by sending specially crafted packets destined to the PAPI (Aruba's access point management protocol) UDP port 8211. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code as a privileged user on the underlying operating system.
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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