CVE-2022-37887: Arubanetworks Arubaos

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

There are buffer overflow vulnerabilities in multiple underlying services 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 these vulnerabilities results in the ability to execute arbitrary code as a privileged user on the underlying operating system of Aruba InstantOS 6.4.x: 6.4.4.8-4.2.4.20 and below; Aruba InstantOS 6.5.x: 6.5.4.23 and below; Aruba InstantOS 8.6.x: 8.6.0.18 and below; Aruba InstantOS 8.7.x: 8.7.1.9 and below; Aruba InstantOS 8.10.x: 8.10.0.1 and below; ArubaOS 10.3.x: 10.3.1.0 and below; Aruba has released upgrades for Aruba InnstantOS that address these security vulnerabilities.

Affected products

• Arubanetworks Arubaos: from 10.3.0.0, before 10.3.1.1 (fixed in 10.3.1.1)
• Arubanetworks Instant: from 6.4.0.0, before 6.4.4.8-4.2.4.21 (fixed in 6.4.4.8-4.2.4.21); from 6.5.0.0, before 6.5.4.24 (fixed in 6.5.4.24); from 8.6.0.0, before 8.6.0.19 (fixed in 8.6.0.19); from 8.7.0.0, before 8.7.1.10 (fixed in 8.7.1.10); from 8.10.0.0, before 8.10.0.2 (fixed in 8.10.0.2)
• Siemens Scalance w1750d Firmware: any version

Published 2022-10-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.