CVE-2020-24633: Arubanetworks Arubaos

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 5.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

There are multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities that could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution by sending especially crafted packets destined to the PAPI (Aruba Networks AP management protocol) UDP port (8211) of access-points or controllers in Aruba 9000 Gateway; Aruba 7000 Series Mobility Controllers; Aruba 7200 Series Mobility Controllers version(s): 2.1.0.1, 2.2.0.0 and below; 6.4.4.23, 6.5.4.17, 8.2.2.9, 8.3.0.13, 8.5.0.10, 8.6.0.5, 8.7.0.0 and below; 6.4.4.23, 6.5.4.17, 8.2.2.9, 8.3.0.13, 8.5.0.10, 8.6.0.5, 8.7.0.0 and below.

Affected products

• Arubanetworks Arubaos: before 6.4.4.24 (fixed in 6.4.4.24); from 6.5.0.0, before 6.5.4.18 (fixed in 6.5.4.18); from 8.0.0.0, before 8.2.2.10 (fixed in 8.2.2.10); from 8.3.0.0, before 8.3.0.14 (fixed in 8.3.0.14); from 8.4.0.0, before 8.5.0.11 (fixed in 8.5.0.11); from 8.6.0.0, before 8.6.0.6 (fixed in 8.6.0.6); …
• Arubanetworks SD-WAN: before 2.1.0.2 (fixed in 2.1.0.2); from 2.2.0.0, before 2.2.0.1 (fixed in 2.2.0.1)

Published 2020-12-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.