Authenticated Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in a Daemon of HPE Networking Instant ON

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Summary

CVECVE-2026-76732
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerhpe
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2026-09-29 20:17:25 UTC
Updated2026-10-01 04:18:20 UTC
DescriptionA local privilege-escalation vulnerability has been discovered in the affected daemon of HPE Networking Instant ON. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a local attacker to achieve arbitrary code execution with root privileges if certain preconditions are met outside of the attacker's control.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v3.1 6.4 MEDIUM from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: CWE-269 | CWE-269 CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

VersionSourceTypeScoreSeverityVector
3.1[email protected]Secondary6.4MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
3.1CNACVSS6.4MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v3.1 Breakdown

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

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

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Hewlett Packard Enterprise HPE Instant ON affected 0.0.0.0 3.4.1.0 semver Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay [email protected] support.hpe.com
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Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

CNA: Internal security research (HPE Networking). (en)

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