CVE-2023-38486: Arubanetworks Arubaos

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A vulnerability in the secure boot implementation on affected Aruba 9200 and 9000 Series Controllers and Gateways allows an attacker to bypass security controls which would normally prohibit unsigned kernel images from executing. An attacker can use this vulnerability to execute arbitrary runtime operating systems, including unverified and unsigned OS images.

Affected products

• Arubanetworks Arubaos: from 8.6.0.0, before 8.6.0.22 (fixed in 8.6.0.22); from 8.10.0.0, before 8.10.0.7 (fixed in 8.10.0.7); from 8.11.0.0, before 8.11.1.1 (fixed in 8.11.1.1); from 10.4.0.0, before 10.4.0.2 (fixed in 10.4.0.2)

Published 2023-09-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.