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CVE-2026-79861 Critical · 9.8 EPSS 1.6%

There is a command injection vulnerability in AOS-10 that could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution by…

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) · ArubaOS (AOS)

Summary

The flaw is a command injection vulnerability in the PAPI packet handling of ArubaOS (AOS-10) from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). An attacker who can send specially crafted PAPI packets to an affected device can gain unauthenticated remote code execution, running arbitrary code as a privileged user on the underlying operating system, with no authentication or user interaction required.

Official description · NVD

There is a command injection vulnerability in AOS-10 that could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution by sending specially crafted PAPI packets. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability results in the ability to execute arbitrary code as a privileged user on the underlying operating system.

Breakdown
23.8 / 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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