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CVE-2026-79870 Critical · 9.6 EPSS 0.3%

An authentication bypass vulnerability in the PAPI protocol of AOS-8 could allow an unauthenticated adjacent attacker…

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) · ArubaOS (AOS)

Summary

An authentication bypass in the PAPI protocol of ArubaOS (AOS) from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) lets an attacker circumvent existing authentication controls. An unauthenticated attacker on an adjacent network can exploit it without user interaction to gain administrative access, modify system configurations, access or manipulate sensitive data, and disrupt network operations.

Official description · NVD

An authentication bypass vulnerability in the PAPI protocol of AOS-8 could allow an unauthenticated adjacent attacker to circumvent existing authentication controls. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to gain administrative access, modify system configurations, access or manipulate sensitive data, and disrupt network operations.

Breakdown
12.5 / 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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