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CVE-2026-73706: Authentication Bypass in the API of HPE Networking Fabric Composer allows Data Exposure and Unauthorized Changes

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 34/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.45% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • According to CISA the attack is automatable: targets can be found by mass scanning.
  • According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.
  • Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).

Low priority for now. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

A vulnerability in the API of HPE Networking Fabric Composer could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to obtain limited system information and to change the state of certain settings of a vulnerable system. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to gain insight into internal services and workflows and to make unauthorized changes that may disrupt the normal operation of the affected service.

HighCVSS 8.6 · v3.1—No exploit No fix recorded
Published
Sep 1, 2026
Updated
Sep 2, 2026
EPSS
0.4% · 39th percentile

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Action score

34

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
34 / 40 · 8.6 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.4%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD
—
CNA · hpe
8.6
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Affected systems

Is your version affected?

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VendorProduct
arubanetworksfabric composer

Affected versions

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

  • arubanetworks fabric composerbefore 7.3.4

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) Fabric Composer

    • 7.0.0 and later · up to and including 7.3.3affected · semver

Same product

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Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2026-76658Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in HPE Networking Fabric Composer SSH Daemon
    40Plan
  • CVE-2026-76657Authentication Bypass in HPE Networking Fabric Composer API allows Administrative Access
    40Plan
  • CVE-2026-19766Authentication Bypass leads to Administrative control of adjacent network hosts in HPE Networking Fabric Composer
    38Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2026-73704Sep 1, 2026 · Authenticated Command Injection Leading to Administrative Access in HPE Networking Fabric Composer API
    35Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2026-73705Sep 1, 2026 · Authenticated Arbitrary File Write leads to Remote Code Execution in HPE Networking Fabric Composer
    35Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2026-73707Sep 1, 2026 · Authenticated Privilege Escalation via Broken Access Control in HPE Networking Fabric Composer API
    34Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

  • CVE-2026-737100 days apartUnauthenticated Denial of Service Vulnerabilities in API Endpoint of HPE Networking Fabric Composer
    32Monitor
  • CVE-2026-737260 days apartAuthentication Bypass in HPE Networking Fabric Composer allows Unauthorized Administrative Access
    27Monitor

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

  • CVE-2026-737000 days apartAuthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability (XSS) in HPE Networking Fabric Composer Web-Based Management Interface
    36Monitor
  • CVE-2026-737130 days apartLocal Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities in HPE Networking Fabric Composer
    31Monitor
  • CVE-2026-737200 days apartAuthenticated Insecure File Handling allows Remote Code Execution in HPE Networking Fabric Composer API
    28Monitor
  • CVE-2026-737250 days apartLocal Privilege Escalation leads to Arbitrary Code Execution in HPE Networking Fabric Composer
    28Monitor

Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

National notice (Türkiye Cybersecurity Directorate / USOM)

Official security notices citing this record; remediation advice is on the agency's page.

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Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
  • No account or password is required.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
low · data can be read
Integrity
high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
low · the service can be disrupted
Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
Low
Integrity impact
High
Availability impact
Low

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-306 · Missing Authentication for Critical Function

CVSS vector

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

nvd-secondary

Root cause

A function added for development or support ships to production without authentication. It often relies on the assumption that it is “only reachable from the internal network.”

The bug in code

The whole CWE-306 class

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

Vulnerable

ts
// Added for the support teamapp.post("/maintenance/reset", resetDevice);

Fixed

ts
if (config.maintenanceEnabled) {  app.post(    "/maintenance/reset",    requireSession, requireRole("admin"), resetDevice  );}

Attack context

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

ATT&CK techniques

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Change log

No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.

References

Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.

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