What is CVE-2023-35980?

CVE-2023-35980 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Arubanetworks Arubaos, classified under Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input (Classic Buffer Overflow). CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2023-07-25.

How severe is CVE-2023-35980?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Arubanetworks Arubaos

CVE-2023-35980

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 por…

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.016 (73.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Arubanetworks Arubaos
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (Hpe) Aruba Access Points Running Instantos And Arubaos 10 — versions ArubaOS 10.4.x.x: 10.4.0.1 and below, InstantOS 8.11.x.x: 8.11.1.0 and below, InstantOS 8.10.x.x: 8.10.0.6 and below
Hp Instantos

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-120 — Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input (Classic Buffer Overflow)

References

security-alert@hpe.com (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-35980?: CVE-2023-35980 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Arubanetworks Arubaos, classified under Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input (Classic Buffer Overflow). CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2023-07-25.
How severe is CVE-2023-35980?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.