CVE-2026-23601: Frame Injection via Shared GTK Allows Traffic Spoofing and Client Compromise

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2026-03-04 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-327

Description

A vulnerability has been identified in the wireless encryption handling of Wi-Fi transmissions. A malicious actor can generate shared-key authenticated transmissions containing targeted payloads while impersonating the identity of a primary BSSID.Successful exploitation allows for the delivery of tampered data to specific endpoints, bypassing standard cryptographic separation.

Affected products

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) ArubaOS (AOS): from 6.5.4.0 through 8.10.0.21; from 8.11.0.0 through 8.12.0.6; from 8.13.0.0 through 8.13.1.1; from 10.3.0.0 through 10.4.1.10; from 10.5.0.0 through 10.7.2.2; 10.8.0.0

References

https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=hpesbnw05026en_us&docLocale=en_US

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