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CVE-2026-79858 Critical · 9.8 EPSS 0.5%

An unauthenticated SQL injection vulnerability exists in the PAPI protocol in AOS-8

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) · ArubaOS (AOS)

Summary

An unauthenticated SQL injection flaw in the PAPI protocol component of ArubaOS (AOS-8), a product from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). An unauthenticated remote attacker, requiring no user interaction, could exploit it over the network to read and modify sensitive information in the underlying database and disrupt normal operation of the affected service.

Official description · NVD

An unauthenticated SQL injection vulnerability exists in the PAPI protocol in AOS-8. Successful exploitation could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to obtain and modify sensitive information in the underlying database and to interrupt the normal operation of the affected service.

Breakdown
17.5 / 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.

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