Authentication Bypass Leading to Remote Code Execution in AOS-8 (Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) ArubaOS (AOS))

CVE-2026-79850
CRITICAL 10.0

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.69 % · percentile 53 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
hpe
NVD status
Awaiting Analysis

Description

Vulnerabilities in the affected interface of AOS-8 could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to bypass existing authentication controls and run arbitrary commands on the underlying host. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root on the underlying operating system leading to complete system compromise.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-288 — Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Nhpe
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:NNVD · security-alert@hpe.com (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) · ArubaOS (AOS)affected 8.13.0.0 ≤ 8.13.3.0 ; affected 8.10.0.0 ≤ 8.10.0.23

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD