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CVE-2026-79860

9.8 critical Awaiting Analysis
NVD · CVE.org

Buffer overflow vulnerabilities exist in an underlying service of AOS-8 that could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution by sending specially crafted packets destined to the PAPI (Aruba's access point management protocol) UDP port 8211. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code as a privileged user on the underlying operating system.

Fix

Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.

Change history 6

  1. StatusPublished → Awaiting AnalysisNVD modified 2026-10-26 14:18
  2. StatusReceived → PublishedNVD modified 2026-10-23 19:13
  3. StatusPublished → ReceivedNVD modified 2026-10-23 20:17
  4. Description
    No description providedBuffer overflow vulnerabilities exist in an underlying service of AOS-8 that could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution by sending specially crafted packets destined to the PAPI (Aruba's access point management protocol) UDP port 8211. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code as a privileged user on the underlying operating system.
    NVD modified 2026-10-23 20:17
  5. StatusReceived → PublishedNVD modified 2026-10-22 19:05
  6. First seenCVSS 9.8NVD modified 2026-10-22 19:17

Affected (CPE criteria) 0

NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.

References 1