Vulnerability · Published Nov 14, 2023 · Assigned by hpe

CVE-2023-45616

Critical 9.8

In plain English

A critical-severity security flaw in Aruba Access Points: 100 Series; 103 Series; 110 Series; 120 Series; 130 Series; 200 Series; 207 Series; 210 Series; 220 Series; 260 Series; 300 Series; 303 Series; 310 Series; 318 Series Hardened Acc 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 2.1% (higher than 82% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)9.8Critical
Exploit odds (30 days)2.1%top 17.9% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

There is a buffer overflow vulnerability in the underlying AirWave client service 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 this vulnerability results in the ability to execute arbitrary code as a privileged user on the underlying operating system.

Affected products (as reported)

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