CVE-2022-37897: Arubanetworks Arubaos

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Arubanetworks Arubaos: from 6.5.4.0, before 6.5.4.23 (fixed in 6.5.4.23); from 8.4.0.0, before 8.6.0.18 (fixed in 8.6.0.18); from 8.7.0.0, before 8.7.1.10 (fixed in 8.7.1.10); from 8.8.0.0, before 8.10.0.0 (fixed in 8.10.0.0); version 10.3.0.0 only
• Arubanetworks SD-WAN: from 8.5.0.0-2.1.0.0, before 8.7.0.0-2.3.0.7 (fixed in 8.7.0.0-2.3.0.7)

Published 2022-12-12. Last modified 2026-10-08.