CVE-2026-79861: critical vulnerability in Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) ArubaOS (AOS)
Unauthenticated Command Injection Vulnerability in the PAPI Protocol of AOS-10
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28Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 9.8epss 1.7%
There is a command injection vulnerability in AOS-10 that could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution by sending specially crafted PAPI packets. 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-2026-79846CRITICALUnauthenticated 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-2026-79857CRITICALUnauthenticated Command Injection Vulnerability in AOS-8 PAPI ProtocolEPSS 1.4%CVE-2025-37171HIGHAuthenticated Command Injection Vulnerabilities in AOS-8 Web-Based Management InterfaceEPSS 1.4%