Low-Privilege Authenticated Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities lead to Remote Code Execution in AOS-CX

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Summary

CVECVE-2026-44880
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerhpe
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2026-07-21 18:16:58 UTC
Updated2026-07-22 20:17:01 UTC
DescriptionA buffer overflow vulnerability was found in the command line interface of AOS-CX. Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an remote low-privileged user to execute arbitrary code as a privileged user on the underlying operating system.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v3.1 8.8 HIGH from [email protected]

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 0.005150000 probability, percentile 0.407620000 (date 2026-07-22)

Problem Types: CWE-120 | CWE-120 CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

VersionSourceTypeScoreSeverityVector
3.1[email protected]Secondary8.8HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
3.1CNACVSS8.8HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v3.1 Breakdown

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Hewlett Packard Enterprise HPE AOS-CX affected 10.17.0000 10.17.1020 semver Not specified
CNA Hewlett Packard Enterprise HPE AOS-CX affected 10.16.0000 10.16.1050 semver Not specified
CNA Hewlett Packard Enterprise HPE AOS-CX affected 10.13.0000 10.13.1170 semver Not specified
CNA Hewlett Packard Enterprise HPE AOS-CX affected 10.18.0000 10.18.0001 semver Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay [email protected] support.hpe.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

CNA: This vulnerability was discovered by moonv through the HPE Aruba Networking Bug Bounty program. (en)

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