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CVE-2024-31473

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-05-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-78

Description

There is a command injection vulnerability in the underlying deauthentication service that could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution by sending specially crafted packets destined to the PAPI (Aruba's Access Point 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 10.3.0.0 before 10.4.1.1; from 10.5.0.0 before 10.5.1.1 — fixed in 10.4.1.1, 10.5.1.1
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) HPE Aruba Networking InstantOS and Aruba Access Points running ArubaOS 10: from 6.4.0.0 before 8.6.0.24; from 8.7.0.0 before 8.10.0.11 — fixed in 8.10.0.11, 8.6.0.24

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) ArubaOS (AOS) 10.4.1.1, 10.5.1.1; Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) HPE Aruba Networking InstantOS and Aruba Access Points running ArubaOS 10 8.10.0.11, 8.6.0.24. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=hpesbnw04647en_us&docLocale=en_US
• https://www.arubanetworks.com/assets/alert/ARUBA-PSA-2024-006.txt

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