Aruba PAPI UDP RCE via buffer overflow (CVE-2023-35981)
CVE-2023-35981 Published on July 25, 2023

Unauthenticated Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities in Services Accessed by the PAPI Protocol
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 system.

NVD

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2023-35981 can be exploited with network access, and does not require authorization privileges or user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be critical as this vulnerability has a high impact to the confidentiality, integrity and availability of this component.

Attack Vector:
NETWORK
Attack Complexity:
LOW
Privileges Required:
NONE
User Interaction:
NONE
Scope:
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact:
HIGH
Integrity Impact:
HIGH
Availability Impact:
HIGH

Products Associated with CVE-2023-35981

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Affected Versions

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Aruba Access Points running InstantOS and ArubaOS 10: hpe arba_access_points_running_instantos_and_arubaos_10:

Exploit Probability

EPSS
1.70%
Percentile
82.05%

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