CVE-2026-79890: Unauthenticated Command Injection Vulnerabilities in AOS-8 Accessed by the PAPI Protocol

Severity: high (CVSS 8.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2026-10-22 · updated 2026-10-26
Weakness: CWE-77

Description

There are command injection vulnerabilities in AOS-8 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 8.13.0.0 through 8.13.3.0; from 8.10.0.0 through 8.10.0.23

References

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

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