CVE-2026-79857 PUBLISHED

Unauthenticated Command Injection Vulnerability in AOS-8 PAPI Protocol

Assigner: hpe
Reserved: 25.08.2026 Published: 22.10.2026 Updated: 24.10.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 9.8

Product Status

Vendor Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
Product ArubaOS (AOS)
Versions Default: affected
  • affected from 8.13.0.0 to 8.13.3.0 (incl.)
  • affected from 8.10.0.0 to 8.10.0.23 (incl.)

Credits

  • Internal security research (HPE Networking). reporter

References