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CVE-2023-22780

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-22780 describes critical buffer overflow vulnerabilities affecting HP ArubaOS and InstantOS. These flaws allow unauthenticated remote code execution by sending specially crafted packets to the PAPI UDP port (8211), enabling attackers to execute arbitrary code as a privileged user. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical), the vulnerability has a network attack vector, low attack complexity, and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or KEV listing, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, indicating awareness and potential for future exploitation.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 10.3.0.0, <= 10.3.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:hp:arubaos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 6.4.0.0, <= 6.4.4.8-4.2.4.20CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:hp:instantos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 6.5.0.0, <= 6.5.4.23CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:hp:instantos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 8.4.0.0, < 8.6.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:hp:instantos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 8.6.0.0, <= 8.6.0.19CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:hp:instantos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.8CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.07%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
79.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0207 is in the 68th percentile among its peer group of 36,833 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

arubanetworks.com / assets/alert/ARUBA-PSA-2023-006.txt
Vendor Advisory