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CVE-2026-79850 Critical · 10.0 EPSS 0.7%

Vulnerabilities in the affected interface of AOS-8 could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to bypass existing…

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) · ArubaOS (AOS)

Summary

A flaw in the affected interface of ArubaOS (AOS-8), a product from Hewlett Packard Enterprise, allows authentication controls to be bypassed via an alternate path or channel. An unauthenticated remote attacker over the network, requiring no user interaction, could bypass authentication and run arbitrary commands as root on the underlying operating system, leading to complete system compromise.

Official description · NVD

Vulnerabilities in the affected interface of AOS-8 could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to bypass existing authentication controls and run arbitrary commands on the underlying host. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root on the underlying operating system leading to complete system compromise.

Breakdown
19.5 / 100
Exploited
Not confirmed
Reports
0
Tactics
0/15

Disclosed on 22 Oct 2026. No public exploit code or confirmed exploitation is recorded.

techniques

No techniques linked

No ATT&CK techniques are linked to this CVE yet. MITRE CTID has not mapped it, and no report passage in the corpus ties it to a technique.

What security researchers reported

Not named in any threat report yet

Also mentioned in 6 community threat pulses (AlienVault OTX)

Weaker evidence

Pulses are indicator collections that anyone can publish. A mention is not confirmation of exploitation.

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