An unauthenticated path traversal vulnerability exists in the PAPI protocol in AOS-8
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) · ArubaOS (AOS)
An unauthenticated path traversal vulnerability in the PAPI protocol of ArubaOS (AOS) from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), specifically in its AOS-8 line, lets an attacker escape intended directory boundaries. An unauthenticated attacker on an adjacent network can read, modify, and delete files on the underlying operating system, with no user interaction and no valid credentials required.
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.
- Exploited
- Not confirmed
- Reports
- 0
- Tactics
- 0/15
Exploitation timelineDated milestones for a CVE: when it was disclosed, when exploit code became public, when exploitation was confirmed, and when threat reports named it.
Disclosed on 22 Oct 2026. No public exploit code or confirmed exploitation is recorded.
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No techniques linkedNo 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 yetAlso mentioned in 6 community threat pulses (AlienVault OTX)
Weaker evidencePulses are indicator collections that anyone can publish. A mention is not confirmation of exploitation.
- Known_Cve | Oct 31, 2026 | Part 1/330 Oct 2026
- Known_Cve | Oct 30, 2026 | Part 1/229 Oct 2026
- Known_Cve | Oct 29, 2026 | Part 2/328 Oct 2026
- Known_Cve | Oct 28, 2026 | Part 2/327 Oct 2026
- Known_Cve | Oct 27, 2026 | Part 2/326 Oct 2026
- Known_Cve | Oct 24, 2026 | Part 3/323 Oct 2026