Authentication Bypass in the SSH Daemon of AOS-8 leads to Complete System Compromise (Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) ArubaOS (AOS))

CVE-2026-79855
CRITICAL 9.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.75 % · percentile 55 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
hpe
NVD status
Awaiting Analysis

Description

An authentication bypass vulnerability in the SSH daemon of AOS-8 allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to circumvent existing authentication controls. Successful exploitation allows an attacker to gain administrative privileges leading to complete compromise of the AOS-8 host.

Weaknesses (CWE)

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

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hhpe
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 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