CVE-2024-26305: Arubanetworks Arubaos

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 15.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

There is a buffer overflow vulnerability in the underlying Utility daemon that could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution by sending specially crafted packets destined to the PAPI (Aruba's access point 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 8.10.0.12 (fixed in 8.10.0.12); from 8.11.0.0, before 8.11.2.2 (fixed in 8.11.2.2); from 10.4.0.0, before 10.4.1.1 (fixed in 10.4.1.1); from 10.5.0.0, before 10.5.1.1 (fixed in 10.5.1.1)
• Arubanetworks SD-WAN: version 8.6.0.4-2.2.0.0 only; version 8.6.0.4-2.2.0.7 only; version 8.7.0.0-2.3.0.0 only; version 8.7.0.0-2.3.0.9 only

Published 2024-05-01. Last modified 2026-09-22.