Vulnerability · Published May 14, 2024 · Assigned by hpe

CVE-2024-31470

Critical 9.8

In plain English

A critical-severity stack buffer overflow in AOS-8 Instant and AOS-10 AP 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 1.2% (higher than 68% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)9.8Critical
Exploit odds (30 days)1.2%top 32.0% 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 SAE (Simultaneous Authentication of Equals) 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)

VendorProductVersions
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) AOS-8 Instant and AOS-10 AP 10.5.0.0 – through 10.5.1.010.4.0.0 – through 10.4.1.08.11.0.0 – through 8.11.2.18.10.0.0 – through 8.10.0.108.6.0.0 – through 8.6.0.23

Weakness: CWE-121 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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