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CVE-2026-79869 Critical · 9.6 EPSS 0.3%

Authentication bypass vulnerabilities in the affected interface of AOS-10 could allow an unauthenticated adjacent…

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) · ArubaOS (AOS)

Summary

The flaw is an authentication bypass in the affected interface of ArubaOS (AOS-10), a product from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). An unauthenticated attacker on an adjacent network can circumvent existing authentication controls and, if successful, execute arbitrary commands as a privileged user on the underlying operating system.

Official description · NVD

Authentication bypass vulnerabilities in the affected interface of AOS-10 could allow an unauthenticated adjacent attacker to circumvent existing authentication controls. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands as a privileged user on the underlying operating system.

Breakdown
13.0 / 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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