CVE-2026-79881: high-severity vulnerability in Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) ArubaOS (AOS)
Authentication Bypass Leading to Remote Code Execution in AOS-8
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21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 8.5epss 0.4%
An authentication bypass vulnerability in the underlying operating system of AOS-8 could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to circumvent existing authentication controls. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code as a privileged user on the underlying operating system leading to complete system compromise.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/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-2026-79857CRITICALUnauthenticated Command Injection Vulnerability in AOS-8 PAPI ProtocolEPSS 1.4%