9.3Critical

CVE-2026-79875Authentication Bypass in the PAPI Protocol of AOS-8 Allows Unauthorized Administrative Access

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) ArubaOS (AOS) Published: (11 days ago)

Description

A vulnerability has been identified in the PAPI protocol of AOS-8 that could potentially 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.

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) 8.13.0.0 – ≤ 8.13.3.0, 8.10.0.0 – ≤ 8.10.0.23

References and patches