CVE-2026-79873Unauthenticated Adjacent Authentication Bypasses in the PAPI Protocol of AOS-10 Leads to Unauthorized Administrative Access
- 9.3CriticalCVSS base score
- 0.25%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 84% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
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.
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 | Critical9.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Awaiting Analysis | 3.1 | Critical9.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.25% · top 84% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.3.
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
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-2026-108373 (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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