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CVE-2026-79875: Authentication Bypass in the PAPI Protocol of AOS-8 Allows Unauthorized Administrative Access
- Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.2% 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-287
Description
A vulnerability has been identified in the PAPI protocol of AOS-8 that could potentially allow an unauthenticated adjacent attacker to circumvent existing authentication controls. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to gain administrative access, modify system configurations, and access or manipulate sensitive data.
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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