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CVE-2026-79860 Critical · 9.8 EPSS 0.7%

Buffer overflow vulnerabilities exist in an underlying service of AOS-8 that could lead to unauthenticated remote code…

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) · ArubaOS (AOS)

Summary

Buffer overflow vulnerabilities in an underlying service of ArubaOS (AOS-8), Hewlett Packard Enterprise's operating system, affect the handling of packets on the PAPI (Aruba's access point management protocol) UDP port 8211. An unauthenticated remote attacker who sends specially crafted packets to that port can execute arbitrary code as a privileged user on the underlying operating system, with no user interaction required.

Official description · NVD

Buffer overflow vulnerabilities exist in an underlying service of AOS-8 that could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution by sending specially crafted packets destined to the PAPI (Aruba's access point management protocol) UDP port 8211. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code as a privileged user on the underlying operating system.

Breakdown
19.7 / 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.

References

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