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CVE-2026-79872 Critical · 9.4 EPSS 0.6%

A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the underlying operating system of AOS that could lead to unauthenticated…

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) · ArubaOS (AOS)

Summary

A buffer overflow in the underlying operating system of HPE Aruba's ArubaOS (AOS) allows arbitrary code to be executed as a privileged user. An unauthenticated remote attacker over the network can trigger it with no user interaction and no prior access.

Official description · NVD

A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the underlying operating system of AOS that could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution by an unauthenticated remote attacker. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability results in the ability to execute arbitrary code as a privileged user on the underlying operating system.

Breakdown
17.8 / 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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