CVE-2024-33512

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 14.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-05-01 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-121

Description

There is a buffer overflow vulnerability in the underlying Local User Authentication Database 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 8.10.0.0 before 8.10.0.10; from 10.5.0.0 before 10.5.1.0; from 10.4.0.0 before 10.4.1.0; from 8.11.0.0 before 8.11.2.1; from 10.3.0.0 before 10.4.0.0; from 8.9.0.0 before 8.10.0.0 — fixed in 10.4.0.0, 10.4.1.0, 10.5.1.0, 6.5.5.0, 8.10.0.0, 8.10.0.10
Arubanetworks Sd-Wan: from 8.7.0.0; from 8.6.0.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) ArubaOS (AOS) 10.4.0.0, 10.4.1.0, 10.5.1.0, 6.5.5.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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