Public vulnerability disclosure

CVE-2026-79869

Authentication Bypass Leading to Remote Code Execution in AOS-10

publishedCWE-287

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.

Technical severity9.6 criticalCVSS 3.1 · CNA: hpe
Published2026-10-22Source updated 2026-11-02
Collected2026-11-022 attributed sources

Fixes and workarounds

No remediation reported in collected sources.

Missing remediation information is not evidence that no patch exists.

Affected products and versions

Affected products, source version ranges and reporting authorities
ProductVersionsAuthority
ArubaOS (AOS)
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
≥ 10.8.0.0; ≤ 10.8.1.1 (affected, semver)
≥ 10.7.0.0; ≤ 10.7.2.6 (affected, semver)
≥ 10.4.0.0; ≤ 10.4.1.13 (affected, semver)
Other versions: affected
CNA: hpe

Version ranges are source assertions. Check the vendor advisory and your installed configuration before determining exposure.

CVSS assessments

CVSS scores, vectors and reporting authorities
Version / scoreVectorAuthority
3.1 / 9.6
critical
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HCNA: hpe

Exploit evidence

No exploit evidence in collected sources. This is not proof of no exploitation.

References