A vulnerability was found in HPE Aruba Networking 501 Wireless Client Bridge up to V2.1.1.0-B0030. It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown function of the component Web Interface. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a command injection vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-77. The product constructs all or part of a command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended command when it is sent to a downstream component. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Multiple command injection vulnerabilities exist in the web interface of the 501 Wireless Client Bridge which could lead to authenticated remote command execution. Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities result in the ability of an attacker to execute arbitrary commands as a privileged user on the underlying operating system. Exploitation requires administrative authentication credentials on the host system.

The advisory is shared at support.hpe.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-54006 since 11/26/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The exploitation needs additional levels of successful authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 01/07/2025). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1202 for this issue.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• HPE

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• Aruba Networking 501 Wireless Client Bridge

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• V2.1.1.0-B0030

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• commercial

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