CVE-2026-79861: Unauthenticated Command Injection Vulnerability in the PAPI Protocol of AOS-10

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% 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-77

Description

There is a command injection vulnerability in AOS-10 that could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution by sending specially crafted PAPI packets. 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 10.8.0.0 through 10.8.1.1; from 10.7.0.0 through 10.7.2.6; from 10.4.0.0 through 10.4.1.13

References

https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=hpesbnw05162en_us&docLocale=en_US

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