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Unauthenticated Adjacent Authentication Bypasses in the PAPI Protocol of AOS-10 Leads to Unauthorized Administrative Access

Type: advisorySource: Official CVE List1 source record

Authentication bypass vulnerabilities in the PAPI protocol of AOS-10 could allow an unauthenticated adjacent attacker to circumvent existing authentication controls. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to gain administrative access, modify system configurations, and access or manipulate sensitive data on affected devices.

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CVE-2026-79873

Primary source · Revision 1

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Security context

Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-79873

ArubaOS (AOS)

Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product

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Prerequisites
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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": "10.8.0.0",
        "versionType": "semver",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "10.8.1.1"
      },
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "10.7.0.0",
        "versionType": "semver",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "10.7.2.6"
      },
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "10.4.0.0",
        "versionType": "semver",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "10.4.1.13"
      }
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "affected"
  }
]
Related CVEs
CVE-2026-79873

Source reference: /cveMetadata/cveId

Publisher severity

critical

Source reference: /containers/cna/metrics

Event
#53129 · Revision 1
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