Unauthenticated Adjacent Path Traversal Vulnerability leads to Filesystem Compromise in AOS-8 (Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) ArubaOS (AOS))

CVE-2026-79866
CRITICAL 9.6

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.27 % · percentile 19 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
hpe
NVD status
Awaiting Analysis

Description

An unauthenticated path traversal vulnerability exists in the PAPI protocol in AOS-8. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an unauthenticated adjacent attacker to read, modify, and delete files on the underlying operating system.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-22 — Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.6CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hhpe
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.6CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/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