Aruba Soft AP Daemon: UDP 8211 CoI Exploits PAPI (CVE-2024-31472)
CVE-2024-31472 Published on May 14, 2024
There are command injection vulnerabilities in the underlying Soft AP Daemon 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.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2024-31472 is exploitable 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.
Weakness Type
What is a Shell injection Vulnerability?
The software constructs all or part of an OS command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended OS command when it is sent to a downstream component.
CVE-2024-31472 has been classified to as a Shell injection vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2024-31472
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Affected Versions
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) AOS-8 Instant and AOS-10 AP:- Version 10.5.0.0, <= 10.5.1.0 is affected.
- Version 10.4.0.0, <= 10.4.1.0 is affected.
- Version 8.11.0.0, <= 8.11.2.1 is affected.
- Version 8.10.0.0, <= 8.10.0.10 is affected.
- Version 8.6.0.0, <= 8.6.0.23 is affected.
- Version 10.5.0.0, <= 10.5.1.0 is affected.
- Version 10.4.0.0, <= 10.4.1.0 is affected.
- Version 8.10.0.0, <= 8.10.0.10 is affected.
- Version 8.11.0.0, <= 8.11.2.1 is affected.
- Version 8.6.0.0, <= 8.6.0.23 is affected.
- Version 10.3.0.0 and below 10.4.0.0 is affected.
- Version 8.9.0.0 and below 8.10.0.0 is affected.
- Version 8.8.0.0 and below 8.9.0.0 is affected.
- Version 8.5.0.0 and below 8.6.0.0 is affected.
- Version 8.7.0.0 and below 8.8.0.0 is affected.
- Version 8.4.0.0 and below 8.5.0.0 is affected.
- Version 6.5.0.0 and below 6.6.0.0 is affected.
- Version 6.4.0.0 and below 6.5.0.0 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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