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CVE-2026-73713: Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities in HPE Networking Fabric Composer

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 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: 2026-09-01 · updated 2026-09-02
• Weakness: CWE-269

Description

Local privilege-escalation vulnerabilities have been discovered in HPE Networking Fabric Composer. Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow a local attacker to achieve arbitrary code execution with root privileges on the underlying operating system of the affected system.

Affected products

• Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Fabric Composer: before 7.3.4 — fixed in 7.3.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Fabric Composer 7.3.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=hpesbnw05133en_us&docLocale=en_US

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