CVE-2026-79857: critical vulnerability in Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) ArubaOS (AOS)
Unauthenticated Command Injection Vulnerability in AOS-8 PAPI Protocol
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28Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 9.8epss 1.4%
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) · ArubaOS (AOS)Related CVEs — Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) ArubaOS (AOS)
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2026-79861CRITICALUnauthenticated Command Injection Vulnerability in the PAPI Protocol of AOS-10EPSS 1.7%CVE-2026-79846CRITICALUnauthenticated Command Injection Vulnerabilities in AOS-8EPSS 1.6%CVE-2026-95715MEDIUMUnauthenticated Local Command Injection Vulnerability in AOS-10 Command Line InterfaceEPSS 1.6%CVE-2026-79864CRITICALUnauthenticated Adjacent Command Injection Vulnerability in AOS-10EPSS 1.5%CVE-2025-37176MEDIUMAuthenticated Command Injection Vulnerability in an AOS-8 operating system's internal workflowEPSS 1.4%CVE-2025-37171HIGHAuthenticated Command Injection Vulnerabilities in AOS-8 Web-Based Management InterfaceEPSS 1.4%