CVE-2023-35982 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2023-35982

Unauthenticated Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities in Services Accessed by the PAPI Protocol

Vulnerability Description

There are buffer overflow vulnerabilities in multiple underlying services 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • Erik de Jong (bugcrowd.com/erikdejong)

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Affected Vendor

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

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Affected Software

Aruba Access Points running InstantOS and ArubaOS 10
Vulnerable Versions:
ArubaOS 10.4.x.x: 10.4.0.1 and below, InstantOS 8.11.x.x: 8.11.1.0 and below, InstantOS 8.10.x.x: 8.10.0.6 and below, InstantOS 8.6.x.x: 8.6.0.20 and below, InstantOS 6.5.x.x: 6.5.4.24 and below, InstantOS 6.4.x.x: 6.4.4.8-4.2.4.21 and below

Timeline

Official Publish: July 25th, 2023
Last Modified: November 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.