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CVE-2026-79878high8.8

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

Impact

A command injection vulnerability in the AOS-8 command line interface accessed by the PAPI protocol could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution. The affected versions are ArubaOS (AOS) 8.13.0.0 to 8.13.3.0 and 8.10.0.0 to 8.10.0.23. An adjacent attacker can send specially crafted PAPI packets to the PAPI UDP port 8211.

Summarized by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast. Verify details against the original sources.

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) · hpe

ArubaOS (AOS)

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affected

8.13.0.0 → through 8.13.3.0

semver versions

8.10.0.0 → through 8.10.0.23

semver versions

unaffected

unknown

Other versions: affected

Original source 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.

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CVE-2026-79878

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Underlying weaknesses

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CWE-77 ↗

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

CISA-ADP

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Assigning organization

2026-10-23
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Additional data publisher

2026-10-30

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