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CVE-2026-76732: Authenticated Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in a Daemon of HPE Networking Instant ON

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 25/100)

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: 0.10% (FIRST EPSS).
Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. Administrator privileges are required. No user action is required. Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.
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 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.

MediumCVSS 6.4 · v3.1—No exploit No fix recorded

EUVD-2026-89351

Published: Sep 29, 2026
Updated: Oct 1, 2026
EPSS: 0.1% · 0th percentile
CWE: CWE-269

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Action score

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 25 / 40 · 6.4 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.1%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD: —
CNA · hpe: 6.4; NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.

The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.

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Affected systems

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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) Instant ON
- 0.0.0.0 and later · up to and including 3.4.1.0affected · semver

Same product

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2026-76722Uncontrolled Format String Vulnerabilities lead to Remote Code Execution or Denial-of-Service in HPE Networking Instant ON APs
39Monitor
CVE-2026-76721Unauthenticated Buffer Overflow Vulnerability leads to Remote Code Execution in HPE Networking Instant ON APs
39Monitor
CVE-2026-76725Authentication Bypass in a Management Protocol of HPE Networking Instant ON APs
38Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2026-76730Sep 29, 2026 · Improper PAPI Packet handling leads to unauthorized access in HPE Networking Instant ON APs
26Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2026-76731Sep 29, 2026 · Authentication Bypass in the Captive Portal of HPE Networking Instant On
26Monitor
Later →CVE-2026-76733Sep 29, 2026 · Authenticated Denial-of-Service Vulnerability in HPE Networking Instant On API Endpoint
19Monitor

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

All researchers

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Internal security research (HPE Networking).reporter

Variant candidates

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

CVE-2026-767310 days apartAuthentication Bypass in the Captive Portal of HPE Networking Instant On
26Monitor

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-2026-767260 days apartAuthentication Bypass Leading to Unauthorized Network Access in HPE Networking Instant ON API Endpoint
32Monitor
CVE-2026-767300 days apartImproper PAPI Packet handling leads to unauthorized access in HPE Networking Instant ON APs
26Monitor

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.

TR-26-1216 · Sep 30, 2026(HPE Çoklu Ürün Güvenlik Bildirimi)

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Technical details

Attack conditions

Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
Administrator privileges are required.
No user action is required.
Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.

If successful

Confidentiality: high · data can be read
Integrity: high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability: high · the service can be disrupted

Attack vector: Local
Attack complexity: High
Privileges required: High
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality impact: High
Integrity impact: High
Availability impact: High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-269 · Improper Privilege Management

CVSS vector

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

nvd-secondary

Root cause

To simplify setup, a service account is granted broad, cluster-wide permissions. The principle of least privilege is skipped during installation.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-269 class

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

Vulnerable

yaml

1kind: ClusterRole
2rules:
3  - apiGroups: ["*"]
4    resources: ["*"]
5    verbs: ["*"]

Fixed

yaml

1kind: Role
2metadata:
3  namespace: lodos-system
4rules:
5  - apiGroups: ["apps"]
6    resources: ["deployments"]
7    verbs: ["get", "list", "update"]

Attack context

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

Attack patterns (CAPEC)

ATT&CK techniques

Abuse Elevation Control MechanismT1548

Change log

SSVC exploitation— → noneSep 30, 2026, 10:07 PM UTC
Exploit maturity— → noneSep 29, 2026, 9:07 PM UTC

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References

support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=hpesbnw05150en_us&docLocale=en_US

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

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