CVE-2023-45626

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2023-11-14 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-863

Description

An authenticated vulnerability has been identified allowing an attacker to effectively establish highly privileged persistent arbitrary code execution across boot cycles.

Affected products

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) ArubaOS (AOS): from 10.3.0.0 before 10.4.0.3; 10.5.0.0 — fixed in 10.4.0.3
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) HPE Aruba Networking InstantOS and Aruba Access Points running ArubaOS 10: from 6.4.0.0 before 8.6.0.23; from 8.10.0.0 before 8.10.0.9; from 8.11.0.0 before 8.11.2.0 — fixed in 8.10.0.9, 8.11.2.0, 8.6.0.23

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) ArubaOS (AOS) 10.4.0.3; Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) HPE Aruba Networking InstantOS and Aruba Access Points running ArubaOS 10 8.10.0.9, 8.11.2.0, 8.6.0.23. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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