CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-79857

CriticalCVSS 9.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Elevated risk
1.42%

73th percentile - higher than 73% of all known CVEs

Summary

There is a command injection vulnerability in the PAPI protocol (Aruba's access point management protocol) of AOS-8 that could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution by sending specially crafted packets to the affected UDP port. Successful exploitation results in the ability to execute arbitrary code as a privileged user on the underlying operating system.

Risk Assessment

A remote unauthenticated attacker could execute code with privileged rights, leading to complete compromise of the system and access points.

Recommendation

Immediately apply the vendor patch for AOS-8 and restrict access to the PAPI UDP port from untrusted networks.

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Original NVD description (English source)

There is a command injection vulnerability in the PAPI protocol (Aruba's access point management protocol) of AOS-8 that could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution by sending specially crafted packets to the affected UDP port. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability results in the ability to execute arbitrary code as a privileged user on the underlying operating system.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS