CVE-2026-79872Unauthenticated Buffer Overflow Vulnerability allows Remote Code Execution in AOS-10 and AOS-8
- 9.4CriticalCVSS base score
- 0.56%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 53% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the underlying operating system of AOS that could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution by an unauthenticated remote attacker. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability results in the ability to execute arbitrary code as a privileged user on the underlying operating system.
Timeline
ID reserved
By hpe
- 58 days later
· 58 days later
Published
- 11 days later
· 11 days later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| hpeCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Critical9.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Awaiting Analysis | 3.1 | Critical9.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.56% · top 53% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.4.
Affected products
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) · ArubaOS (AOS)
- affected 10.8.0.0 – ≤ 10.8.1.1
- affected 10.7.0.0 – ≤ 10.7.2.6
- affected 10.4.0.0 – ≤ 10.4.1.13
- affected 8.13.0.0 – ≤ 8.13.3.0
- affected 8.10.0.0 – ≤ 8.10.0.23
References
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-108372 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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