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CVE-2026-79863 Critical · 9.6 EPSS 0.3%

Buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the affected interface of AOS-10 or AOS-8 could allow an unauthenticated adjacent…

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) · ArubaOS (AOS)

Summary

Buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the affected interface of ArubaOS (AOS), specifically AOS-10 and AOS-8, allow code execution. The flaw lives in the interface component of ArubaOS products from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). An unauthenticated attacker on an adjacent network can exploit it without user interaction by sending specially crafted data to the affected interface, executing arbitrary code as a privileged user on the underlying operating system.

Official description · NVD

Buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the affected interface of AOS-10 or AOS-8 could allow an unauthenticated adjacent attacker to execute arbitrary code by sending specially crafted data to the affected interface. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code as a privileged user on the underlying operating system.

Breakdown
12.2 / 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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Other 1

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