9.3Critical

CVE-2026-79873Unauthenticated Adjacent Authentication Bypasses in the PAPI Protocol of AOS-10 Leads to Unauthorized Administrative Access

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) ArubaOS (AOS) Published: (10 days ago)

Description

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.

Weakness (CWE): CWE-287

Data: CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, Ubuntu. Published as the sources state it, in English.

Affected products and versions

VendorProductVersions
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) ArubaOS (AOS) 10.8.0.0 – ≤ 10.8.1.1, 10.7.0.0 – ≤ 10.7.2.6, 10.4.0.0 – ≤ 10.4.1.13

References and patches