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CVE-2026-79850: Authentication Bypass Leading to Remote Code Execution in AOS-8

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Plan (action score 40/100)

  • 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: 0.68% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 52.7% of all records.
  • 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.

Add it to your regular patch cycle. 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

Vulnerabilities in the affected interface of AOS-8 could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to bypass existing authentication controls and run arbitrary commands on the underlying host. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root on the underlying operating system leading to complete system compromise.

CriticalCVSS 10.0 · v3.1—No exploit No fix recorded
Published
Oct 22, 2026
Updated
Oct 26, 2026
EPSS
0.6% · 52th percentile

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Action score

40

Plan

Add it to your regular patch cycle.

CVSS
40 / 40 · 10.0 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.6%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
total

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD
—
CNA · hpe
10.0
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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) ArubaOS (AOS)

    • 8.13.0.0 and later · up to and including 8.13.3.0affected · semver
    • 8.10.0.0 and later · up to and including 8.10.0.23affected · semver

Same product

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2026-79861Unauthenticated Command Injection Vulnerability in the PAPI Protocol of AOS-10
    40Plan
  • CVE-2026-79851Unauthenticated Buffer Overflow Vulnerability leads to Remote Code Execution in AOS-10
    40Plan
  • CVE-2026-79849Unauthenticated SQL Injection Vulnerabilities allow Remote Code Execution in AOS-8
    40Plan

Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2026-79847Oct 22, 2026 · Unauthenticated Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities leads to Remote Code Execution in AOS-10
    40Plan
  • ← EarlierCVE-2026-79848Oct 22, 2026 · Unauthenticated SQL Injection Vulnerabilities allow Remote Code Execution in AOS-8
    40Plan
  • Later →CVE-2026-79852Oct 22, 2026 · Unauthenticated SQL Injection allows Remote Code Execution in AOS Web-Based Management Interface
    39Monitor

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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Variant candidates

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

  • CVE-2026-798440 days apartAuthentication Bypass Leading to Remote Code Execution in AOS-10
    40Plan
  • CVE-2026-798550 days apartAuthentication Bypass in the SSH Daemon of AOS-8 leads to Complete System Compromise
    39Monitor

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-2026-798800 days apartAuthenticated Server-Side Request Forgery leads to Remote Code Execution in AOS-8
    34Monitor
  • CVE-2026-798920 days apartAuthenticated Local Memory Corruption Vulnerability leads to Arbitrary Code Execution in AOS-8
    31Monitor
  • CVE-2026-799560 days apartImproper Sanitization leads to Command Injection in AOS-8 Web Interface
    28Monitor
  • CVE-2026-957060 days apartAuthenticated Command Injection Vulnerabilities in AOS-8
    28Monitor

Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

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

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
high · data can be read
Integrity
high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
none

Impact can extend beyond the vulnerable component (scope changes).

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality impact
High
Integrity impact
High
Availability impact
None

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-288 · Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel

CVSS vector

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

nvd-secondary

Attack context

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

Change log

  1. SSVC exploitation— → none
  2. Exploit maturity— → none

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References

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

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