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CVE-2018-7079 — Aruba ClearPass Policy Manager guest authorization failure

Aruba ClearPass Policy Manager guest authorization failure. Certain administrative operations in ClearPass Guest do not properly enforce authorization rules, which allows any authenticated administrative user to execute those operations regardless of privilege level. This could a

CVSS
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EPSS
0.34% (top 43.70%)
CWE
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Published
2018-12-07T21:00:00.000Z
Last modified
2024-08-05T06:17:17.393Z
CVSS vector
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01What is this vulnerability?

Aruba ClearPass Policy Manager guest authorization failure. Certain administrative operations in ClearPass Guest do not properly enforce authorization rules, which allows any authenticated administrative user to execute those operations regardless of privilege level. This could allow low-privilege users to view, modify, or delete guest users. Resolution: Fixed in 6.7.6 and 6.6.10-hotfix.

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
Hewlett Packard EnterpriseAruba ClearPass Policy ManagerClearPass 6.7.x prior to 6.7.6, ClearPass 6.6.10 and earlier without hotfix applied

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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