Aruba ArubaOS Mobility Controller IP Packet input validation

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Aruba ArubaOS. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component Mobility Controller. Such manipulation as part of IP Packet leads to input validation. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2018-7081. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in Aruba ArubaOS (version unknown) and classified as very critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown function of the component Mobility Controller. The manipulation as part of a IP Packet leads to a input validation vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-20. The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

A remote code execution vulnerability is present in network-listening components in some versions of ArubaOS. An attacker with the ability to transmit specially-crafted IP traffic to a mobility controller could exploit this vulnerability and cause a process crash or to execute arbitrary code within the underlying operating system with full system privileges. Such an attack could lead to complete system compromise. The ability to transmit traffic to an IP interface on the mobility controller is required to carry out an attack. The attack leverages the PAPI protocol (UDP port 8211). If the mobility controller is only bridging L2 traffic to an uplink and does not have an IP address that is accessible to the attacker, it cannot be attacked.

The weakness was shared 09/13/2019 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at arubanetworks.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2018-7081 since 02/15/2018. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $5k-$25k (estimation calculated on 08/24/2020).

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

The entries VDB-141787 and VDB-141788 are related to this item. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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• Aruba

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• ArubaOS

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• commercial

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