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CVE-2026-79860: Unauthenticated Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities lead to Remote Code Execution in AOS-8
- Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2026-10-22 · updated 2026-10-30
- Weakness: CWE-120
Description
Buffer overflow vulnerabilities exist in an underlying service of AOS-8 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 could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code as a privileged user on the underlying operating system.
Affected products
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) ArubaOS (AOS): from 8.13.0.0 through 8.13.3.0; from 8.10.0.0 through 8.10.0.23
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