CVE-2026-79878

Unauthenticated Adjacent Command Injection Vulnerability in the AOS-8 Command Line Interface Accessed by the PAPI Protocol

State: Published
Severity: 8.8 High
Published: Oct 22, 2026
Updated: Oct 30, 2026
Reserved: Aug 25, 2026

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Description

A command injection vulnerability in the AOS-8 command line interface accessed by the PAPI protocol could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution by an adjacent attacker sending specially crafted PAPI packets destined to the PAPI UDP port 8211. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code as a privileged user on the underlying operating system.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	hpe

Weaknesses

CWE-77 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
ArubaOS (AOS)Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)	8.13.0.0 through 8.13.3.0Affected 8.10.0.0 through 8.10.0.23Affected

References

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

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