Unauthenticated Adjacent Command Injection Vulnerability in the AOS-8 Command Line Interface Accessed by the PAPI Protocol

Summary

A command injection vulnerability in the AOS-8 command line interface accessed by the PAPI protocol could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution by an adjacent attacker sending specially crafted PAPI packets destined to the PAPI UDP port 8211. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code as a privileged user on the underlying operating system.

Remediation

1. Inventory every Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) ArubaOS (AOS) deployment, including staging.
2. No fixed version appears in the public sources yet. Check the references below and the vendor directly.

References

• Referencehttps://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=hpesbnw05162en_us&docLocale=en_US