Privilege Escalation in HPE Aruba Fabric Composer Web UI
CVE-2025-23053 Published on January 28, 2025
Authenticated privilege escalation via broken access control
A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the web-based management interface of HPE Aruba Networking Fabric Composer. Successful exploitation could allow an authenticated low privilege operator user to change the state of certain settings of a vulnerable system.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2025-23053 can be exploited with network access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have no impact on confidentiality, a high impact on integrity, and no impact on availability.
Weakness Type
What is an AuthZ Vulnerability?
The software performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action, but it does not correctly perform the check. This allows attackers to bypass intended access restrictions.
CVE-2025-23053 has been classified to as an AuthZ vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2025-23053
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Affected Versions
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) HPE Aruba Networking Fabric Composer (AFC):- Version 7.0.0, <= 7.1.0 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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