CVE-2024-42505: Unauthenticated Command Injection Vulnerabilities in the CLI Service Accessed by the PAPI Protocol

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-09-25 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-77

Description

Command injection vulnerabilities in the underlying CLI service 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 these vulnerabilities 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 10.5.0.0 through 10.6.0.2; from 10.0.0.0 through 10.4.1.13; from 6.4.0.0 through 8.10.0.13; from 8.11.0.0 through 8.12.0.1

References

https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=hpesbnw04712en_us&docLocale=en_US

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