Unauthenticated Command Injection Vulnerability in AOS-8 PAPI Protocol
There is a command injection vulnerability in the PAPI protocol (Aruba's access point management protocol) of AOS-8 that could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution by sending specially crafted packets to the affected UDP port. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability results in the ability to execute arbitrary code as a privileged user on the underlying operating system.
CVE-2026-79857
Primary source · Revision 1
Imported from structured advisory data. Source references identify upstream records or fields; verify affected versions and your deployed configuration.
Security context
Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-79857
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-2026-79857
Source reference:
/cveMetadata/cveId
Publisher severity
critical
Source reference: /containers/cna/metrics
- Event
- #55790 · Revision 1
- Added to Heist Feed
- Publisher date