Aruba InstantOS/ArubaOS up to 10.5.1.0 PAPI command injection

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Aruba InstantOS and ArubaOS up to 8.6.0.23/8.10.0.10/8.11.2.1/10.4.1.0/10.5.1.0. It has been classified as critical. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component PAPI. Performing a manipulation results in command injection. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2024-31472. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability was found in Aruba InstantOS and ArubaOS up to 8.6.0.23/8.10.0.10/8.11.2.1/10.4.1.0/10.5.1.0. It has been classified as very critical. This affects an unknown code block of the component PAPI. 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:

There are command injection vulnerabilities in the underlying Soft AP Daemon service 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 these vulnerabilities result in the ability to execute arbitrary code as a privileged user on the underlying operating system.

The advisory is shared at arubanetworks.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-31472 since 04/03/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 06/24/2025). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1202 for this issue.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2024-29352). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Vendor

• Aruba

Name

• ArubaOS
• InstantOS

Version

• 8.6.0.0
• 8.6.0.1
• 8.6.0.2
• 8.6.0.3
• 8.6.0.4
• 8.6.0.5
• 8.6.0.6
• 8.6.0.7
• 8.6.0.8
• 8.6.0.9
• 8.6.0.10
• 8.6.0.11
• 8.6.0.12
• 8.6.0.13
• 8.6.0.14
• 8.6.0.15
• 8.6.0.16
• 8.6.0.17
• 8.6.0.18
• 8.6.0.19
• 8.6.0.20
• 8.6.0.21
• 8.6.0.22
• 8.6.0.23
• 8.10.0.0
• 8.10.0.1
• 8.10.0.2
• 8.10.0.3
• 8.10.0.4
• 8.10.0.5
• 8.10.0.6
• 8.10.0.7
• 8.10.0.8
• 8.10.0.9
• 8.10.0.10
• 8.11.2.0
• 8.11.2.1
• 10.4.0
• 10.4.1.0
• 10.5.0
• 10.5.1.0

License

• commercial

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