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CVE-2023-22781 — There are buffer overflow vulnerabilities in multiple underlying services that c

There are buffer overflow vulnerabilities in multiple underlying services 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 of

CVSS
9.8 CRITICAL
EPSS
1.26% (top 20.80%)
CWE
—
Published
2023-05-08T14:03:42.187Z
Last modified
2025-01-31T18:12:49.754Z
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

01What is this vulnerability?

There are buffer overflow vulnerabilities in multiple underlying services 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 of these vulnerabilities result in the ability to execute arbitrary code as a privileged user on the underlying operating…

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)Aruba Access Points running InstantOS and ArubaOS 10InstantOS 8.10.x.x: 8.10.0.2 and below, ArubaOS 10.3.x.x: 10.3.1.4 and below, See reference document for further details

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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