CVE-2022-37897

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2022-12-12 · updated 2026-10-08
Weakness: CWE-78

Description

There is a command injection vulnerability that could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution by sending specially crafted packets destined to the PAPI (Aruba Networks AP management protocol) UDP port (8211). Successful exploitation of this vulnerability results in the ability to execute arbitrary code as a privileged user on the underlying operating system.

Affected products

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) ArubaOS (AOS): from 6.5.4.0 before 6.5.4.23; from 8.4.0.0 before 8.6.0.18; from 8.7.0.0 before 8.7.1.10; from 8.8.0.0 before 8.10.0.0; 10.3.0.0 — fixed in 6.5.4.23, 8.10.0.0, 8.6.0.18, 8.7.1.10
Arubanetworks Sd-Wan: from 8.5.0.0-2.1.0.0 before 8.7.0.0-2.3.0.7 — fixed in 8.7.0.0-2.3.0.7

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) ArubaOS (AOS) 6.5.4.23, 8.10.0.0, 8.6.0.18, 8.7.1.10; Arubanetworks Sd-Wan 8.7.0.0-2.3.0.7. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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