CVE-2026-79866 PUBLISHED

Unauthenticated Adjacent Path Traversal Vulnerability leads to Filesystem Compromise in AOS-8

Assigner: hpe
Reserved: 25.08.2026 Published: 22.10.2026 Updated: 23.10.2026

An unauthenticated path traversal vulnerability exists in the PAPI protocol in AOS-8. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an unauthenticated adjacent attacker to read, modify, and delete files on the underlying operating system.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 9.6

Attack Vector	Adjacent Network	Scope	Changed
Attack Complexity	Low	Confidentiality Impact	High
Privileges Required	None	Integrity Impact	High
User Interaction	None	Availability Impact	High

CVSS 3.1

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

https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=hpesbnw05162en_us&docLocale=en_US