CVE Catalog

CVE-2022-37897

CriticalCVSS 9.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

High risk
1.76%

77th percentile - higher than 77% of all known CVEs

Summary

There is a command injection vulnerability that could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution by sending specially crafted packets destined to the PAPI (Aruba Networks AP management protocol) UDP port (8211). Successful exploitation results in the ability to execute arbitrary code as a privileged user on the underlying operating system.

Risk Assessment

An unauthenticated attacker can remotely execute code with high privileges, leading to full system compromise.

Recommendation

Apply available Aruba Networks updates and restrict access to UDP port 8211 from untrusted networks.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

There is a command injection vulnerability that could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution by sending specially crafted packets destined to the PAPI (Aruba Networks AP management protocol) UDP port (8211). Successful exploitation of this vulnerability results in the ability to execute arbitrary code as a privileged user on the underlying operating system.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS