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CVE-2023-38486

19
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-38486 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Aruba 9000 and 9200 Series Controllers and Gateways that allows an authenticated attacker to bypass secure boot and execute unsigned kernel images. This local attack, while complex, could lead to full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 8.6.0.0, < 8.6.0.22CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:arubanetworks:arubaos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 8.10.0.0, < 8.10.0.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:arubanetworks:arubaos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 8.11.0.0, < 8.11.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:arubanetworks:arubaos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 10.4.0.0, < 10.4.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:arubanetworks:arubaos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.7HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.3
Impact Score
5.8
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.29%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
21.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0029 is in the 74th percentile among its peer group of 418 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 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-2023-014.txt
Vendor Advisory