Buffer Overflow in Aruba Central Comm Service (PAPI) UDP 8211 -> RCE
CVE-2024-31469 Published on May 14, 2024

There are buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the underlying Central Communications 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 these vulnerabilities result in the ability to execute arbitrary code as a privileged user on the underlying operating system.

NVD

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2024-31469 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

Weakness Type

What is a Stack Overflow Vulnerability?

A stack-based buffer overflow condition is a condition where the buffer being overwritten is allocated on the stack (i.e., is a local variable or, rarely, a parameter to a function).

CVE-2024-31469 has been classified to as a Stack Overflow vulnerability or weakness.


Products Associated with CVE-2024-31469

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Affected Versions

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) AOS-8 Instant and AOS-10 AP: arubanetworks arubaos: arubanetworks arubaos: arubanetworks instant: arubanetworks instant: arubanetworks instant: arubanetworks arubaos: arubanetworks instant: arubanetworks instant: arubanetworks instant: arubanetworks instant: arubanetworks instant: arubanetworks instant: arubanetworks instant:

Exploit Probability

EPSS
3.10%
Percentile
86.61%

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) scores estimate the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days. The percentile shows you how this score compares to all other vulnerabilities.