Vulnerability · Published Feb 28, 2023 · Assigned by hpe

CVE-2023-22749Multiple Unauthenticated Command Injections in the PAPI Protocol

Critical 9.8

In plain English

A critical-severity command injection in Aruba Mobility Conductor (formerly Mobility Master); Aruba Mobility Controllers; WLAN Gateways and SD-WAN Gateways managed by Aruba Central from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.7% (higher than 78% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)9.8Critical
Exploit odds (30 days)1.7%top 22.2% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

There are multiple command injection vulnerabilities that could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution by sending specially crafted packets destined to the PAPI (Aruba Networks 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 system.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Aruba Mobility Conductor (formerly Mobility Master); Aruba Mobility Controllers; WLAN Gateways and SD-WAN Gateways managed by Aruba Central ArubaOS 8.6.x.x: 8.6.0.19 and belowArubaOS 8.10.x.x: 8.10.0.4 and belowArubaOS 10.3.x.x: 10.3.1.0 and belowSD-WAN 8.7.0.0-2.3.0.x: 8.7.0.0-2.3.0.8 and below

Weakness: CWE-77 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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