CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-79875

CriticalCVSS 9.3
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.23%

14th percentile - higher than 14% of all known CVEs

Summary

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.

Risk Assessment

An attacker could gain administrative privileges and modify configuration, posing a serious threat to network security.

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)

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.

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