What is CVE-2024-42393?

CVE-2024-42393 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Arubanetworks Arubaos, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2024-08-06.

How severe is CVE-2024-42393?

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

RCE in Arubanetworks Arubaos

CVE-2024-42393

There are vulnerabilities in the Soft AP Daemon Service which could allow a threat actor to execute an unauthenticated RCE attack. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system leading to complete system compromise.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2024-08-06 · last modified 2026-06-17.

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.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.006 (48.1th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 48th percentile — 48.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.006 · newest: 0.006 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Arubanetworks Arubaos
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) HPE Aruba Networking Instantos And Access Points Running Arubaos 10 — versions Version 8.12.0.0: 8.12.0.1 and below, Version 8.10.0.0: 8.10.0.12 and below
HP Instantos

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-42393?: CVE-2024-42393 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Arubanetworks Arubaos, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2024-08-06.
How severe is CVE-2024-42393?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.