CVE-2023-35981 is a critical buffer overflow vulnerability affecting ArubaOS and InstantOS, allowing unauthenticated remote code execution. Attackers can exploit this by sending specially crafted packets to the PAPI UDP port (8211), leading to arbitrary code execution with privileged user access. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this vulnerability poses a significant risk due to its network attack vector and low attack complexity, resulting in high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or public exploit code, the vulnerability has garnered substantial community discussion, indicating awareness and potential future interest.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 10.4.0.0, < 10.4.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:arubanetworks:arubaos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 6.4.0.0, < 6.4.4.8-4.2.4.22CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:hp:instantos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 6.5.0.0, < 6.5.4.25CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:hp:instantos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 8.6.0.0, < 8.6.0.21CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:hp:instantos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 8.10.0.0, < 8.10.0.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:hp:instantos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
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 records are not available for this CVE.