Unauthenticated Adjacent Command Injection Vulnerability in the AOS-8 Command Line Interface Accessed by the PAPI Protocol
A command injection vulnerability in the AOS-8 command line interface accessed by the PAPI protocol could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution by an adjacent attacker sending specially crafted PAPI packets destined to the PAPI UDP port 8211. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code as a privileged user on the underlying operating system.
CVE-2026-79878
Primary source · Revision 1
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Security context
Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-79878
ArubaOS (AOS)
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Structured affected-version data
Original package identities and version rules from this source.
[
{
"vendor": "Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)",
"product": "ArubaOS (AOS)",
"versions": [
{
"status": "affected",
"version": "8.13.0.0",
"versionType": "semver",
"lessThanOrEqual": "8.13.3.0"
},
{
"status": "affected",
"version": "8.10.0.0",
"versionType": "semver",
"lessThanOrEqual": "8.10.0.23"
}
],
"defaultStatus": "affected"
}
]- Related CVEs
- CVE-2026-79878
Source reference:
/cveMetadata/cveId
Publisher severity
high
Source reference: /containers/cna/metrics
- Event
- #53134 · Revision 1
- Added to Heist Feed
- Publisher date