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CVE-2026-79873 Critical · 9.3 EPSS 0.2%

Authentication bypass vulnerabilities in the PAPI protocol of AOS-10 could allow an unauthenticated adjacent attacker…

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) · ArubaOS (AOS)

Summary

Authentication bypass vulnerabilities in the PAPI protocol of ArubaOS (AOS-10) affect Hewlett Packard Enterprise's ArubaOS product. An unauthenticated attacker on an adjacent network can circumvent existing authentication controls to gain administrative access, modify system configurations, and access or manipulate sensitive data on affected devices.

Official description · NVD

Authentication bypass vulnerabilities in the PAPI protocol of AOS-10 could allow an unauthenticated adjacent attacker to circumvent existing authentication controls. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to gain administrative access, modify system configurations, and access or manipulate sensitive data on affected devices.

Breakdown
11.6 / 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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