Unauthenticated Denial-of-Service (DoS) Vulnerabilities in the Soft AP Daemon Service Accessed by the PAPI Protocol

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• arubanetworks arubaos10.4.0.0 and later · before 10.4.1.2
• arubanetworks arubaos10.6.0.0
• hp instantos8.10.0.0 and later · before 8.10.0.13
• hp instantos8.12.0.0 and later · before 8.12.0.2

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (hpe). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

• Hewlett Packard Enterprise HPE Aruba Networking InstantOS and Aruba Access Points running ArubaOS 10

  • Version 8.12.0.0: 8.12.0.1 and below and later · up to and including <=8.12.0.1affected · semver
  • Version 8.10.0.0: 8.10.0.12 and below and later · up to and including <=8.10.0.12affected · semver
  • Version 10.6.0.0: 10.6.0.0 and below and later · up to and including <=10.6.0.0affected · semver
  • Version 10.4.0.0: 10.4.1.3 and below and later · up to and including <=10.4.1.3affected · semver

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2020-24633There are multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities that could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution by sending especially crafted pa
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• CVE-2018-7081A remote code execution vulnerability is present in network-listening components in some versions of ArubaOS.
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• CVE-2023-45616There is a buffer overflow vulnerability in the underlying AirWave client service that could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution b
  40Plan
• CVE-2023-45615There are buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the underlying CLI service that could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution by sending
  40Plan
• CVE-2023-45614There are buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the underlying CLI service that could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution by sending
  40Plan
• CVE-2023-35982Unauthenticated Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities in Services Accessed by the PAPI Protocol
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FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

Code that parses nested structures sets no depth or size limit. A small input can turn into a disproportionate processing load.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1function expand(node) {2  return node.children.map(expand);3}

1const MAX_DEPTH = 32;2function expand(node, depth = 0) {3  if (depth > MAX_DEPTH) throw new Error("too deep");4  return node.children.map((c) => expand(c, depth + 1));5}

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.