CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-79870

CriticalCVSS 9.6
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.27%

19th percentile - higher than 19% of all known CVEs

Summary

An authentication bypass vulnerability in the PAPI protocol of AOS-8 could allow an unauthenticated adjacent attacker to circumvent existing authentication controls. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to gain administrative access, modify system configurations, access or manipulate sensitive data, and disrupt network operations.

Risk Assessment

An attacker could gain administrative privileges and disrupt network operations, posing a serious threat to infrastructure.

Recommendation

Immediately deploy the vendor update for AOS-8 and restrict access to the PAPI protocol from untrusted network segments.

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Original NVD description (English source)

An authentication bypass vulnerability in the PAPI protocol of AOS-8 could allow an unauthenticated adjacent attacker to circumvent existing authentication controls. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to gain administrative access, modify system configurations, access or manipulate sensitive data, and disrupt network operations.

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