Unauthenticated privileged code execution via PAPI command injection
Published May 14, 2024 · Updated Jun 24, 2025
Command injection in HPE Aruba Networking InstantOS and ArubaOS 10 access points allows remote attackers to execute privileged code via PAPI UDP/8211. The Soft AP Daemon accepts attacker-controlled opcode 0xAC data, incompletely escapes a filename value, leaves backticks usable, and passes the resulting string to a command routine. No authentication or user interaction is required; network access to UDP/8211 is sufficient for privileged operating-system code execution.
Summary
What happened
Command injection in HPE Aruba Networking InstantOS and ArubaOS 10 access points allows remote attackers to execute privileged code via PAPI UDP/8211. The Soft AP Daemon accepts attacker-controlled opcode 0xAC data, incompletely escapes a filename value, leaves backticks usable, and passes the resulting string to a command routine. No authentication or user interaction is required; network access to UDP/8211 is sufficient for privileged operating-system code execution.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-31472
- Published
- May 14, 2024
- Updated
- Jun 24, 2025
- Vendor
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
- Product
- HPE Aruba Networking Wireless Operating System (AOS)
- Classifications
- CWE-78, T1210
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- May 14, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jun 24, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=10.4.0.0 <=10.4.1.0
- Affected versionversion=10.5.0.0 <=10.5.1.0
- Affected versionversion=8.10.0.0 <=8.10.0.10
- Affected versionversion=8.11.0.0 <=8.11.2.1
- Affected versionversion=8.6.0.0 <=8.6.0.23
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