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CVE-2026-79857 Critical · 9.8 EPSS 1.4%

There is a command injection vulnerability in the PAPI protocol (Aruba's access point management protocol) of AOS-8…

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) · ArubaOS (AOS)

Summary

The vulnerability is a command injection flaw in the PAPI protocol, Aruba's access point management protocol, within ArubaOS (AOS-8). An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit it by sending specially crafted packets to the affected UDP port, requiring no user interaction, to execute arbitrary code as a privileged user on the underlying operating system.

Official description · NVD

There is a command injection vulnerability in the PAPI protocol (Aruba's access point management protocol) of AOS-8 that could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution by sending specially crafted packets to the affected UDP port. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability results in the ability to execute arbitrary code as a privileged user on the underlying operating system.

Breakdown
23.3 / 100
Exploited
Not confirmed
Reports
0
Tactics
0/15

Disclosed on 22 Oct 2026. No public exploit code or confirmed exploitation is recorded.

techniques

No techniques linked

No ATT&CK techniques are linked to this CVE yet. MITRE CTID has not mapped it, and no report passage in the corpus ties it to a technique.

What security researchers reported

Not named in any threat report yet

Also mentioned in 6 community threat pulses (AlienVault OTX)

Weaker evidence

Pulses are indicator collections that anyone can publish. A mention is not confirmation of exploitation.

References

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