TI-2023-18041 Aliases CVE-2023-35981 GHSA-r799-cqfw-5v59

Unauthenticated Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities in Services Accessed by the PAPI Protocol

MEDIUM 53CWE-120Published 2023-07-25 · Updated 2024-11-07

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: None
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: Code execution
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: High · High · High
Fix status: No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-120 and the CVSS impact.

Summary

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.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.02068 81st percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: None
Automatable: Yes
Technical impact: Total

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)	Aruba Access Points running InstantOS and ArubaOS 10	ArubaOS 10.4.x.x: 10.4.0.1 and below and later; InstantOS 8.11.x.x: 8.11.1.0 and below and later; InstantOS 8.10.x.x: 8.10.0.6 and below and later; InstantOS 8.6.x.x: 8.6.0.20 and below and later; InstantOS 6.5.x.x: 6.5.4.24 and below and later; InstantOS 6.4.x.x: 6.4.4.8-4.2.4.21 and below and later	—	No fix listed	CNA

Aruba Access Points running InstantOS and ArubaOS 10 VendorHewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Affected ArubaOS 10.4.x.x: 10.4.0.1 and below and later; InstantOS 8.11.x.x: 8.11.1.0 and below and later; InstantOS 8.10.x.x: 8.10.0.6 and below and later; InstantOS 8.6.x.x: 8.6.0.20 and below and later; InstantOS 6.5.x.x: 6.5.4.24 and below and later; InstantOS 6.4.x.x: 6.4.4.8-4.2.4.21 and below and later Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 2

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:o:arubanetworks:arubaos::::::::	10.4.0.0 to before 10.4.0.2	Vulnerable	Arubanetworks
cpe:2.3:o:hp:instantos::::::::	6.4.0.0 to before 6.4.4.8-4.2.4.22; 6.5.0.0 to before 6.5.4.25; 8.6.0.0 to before 8.6.0.21; 8.10.0.0 to before 8.10.0.7; 8.11.0.0 to before 8.11.1.1	Vulnerable	Hewlett Packard Enterprise

cpe:2.3:o:arubanetworks:arubaos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 10.4.0.0 to before 10.4.0.2 Vulnerable ·Arubanetworks
cpe:2.3:o:hp:instantos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 6.4.0.0 to before 6.4.4.8-4.2.4.22; 6.5.0.0 to before 6.5.4.25; 8.6.0.0 to before 8.6.0.21; 8.10.0.0 to before 8.10.0.7; 8.11.0.0 to before 8.11.1.1 Vulnerable ·Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2023-35981
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-r799-cqfw-5v59

References

Advisory 1

https://www.arubanetworks.com/assets/alert/ARUBA-PSA-2023-009.txt

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TI-2015-04610 Assertion failure in ISC BIND named via TKEY queries KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
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TI-2024-35875 XML injection in Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) HPE Insight Remote Support CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5

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Sources

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