HPE Aruba OS up to 10.6.0.2 Command Line Interface os command injection

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A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in HPE Aruba OS up to 10.6.0.2. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Command Line Interface. This manipulation causes privilege escalation. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2024-42503. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability was found in HPE Aruba OS up to 10.6.0.2. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown functionality of the component Command Line Interface. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privilege escalation vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-78. The product constructs all or part of an OS command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended OS command when it is sent to a downstream component. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Authenticated command execution vulnerability exist in the ArubaOS command line interface (CLI). Successful exploitation of this vulnerabilities result in the ability to run arbitrary commands as a priviledge user on the underlying operating system.

It is possible to read the advisory at support.hpe.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-42503 since 08/02/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are necessary for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 09/29/2024). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1202 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 207739 (ArubaOS 8.10.x < 8.10.0.14, 8.12.x < 8.12.0.2, 10.6.x < 10.6.0.3 Multiple Vulnerabilities (HPESBNW04709)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

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

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (207739). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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Vendor

• HPE

Name

• Aruba OS

Version

• 8.9.0
• 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
• 8.10.0.11
• 8.10.0.12
• 8.10.0.13
• 8.12.0
• 8.12.0.0
• 8.12.0.1
• 10.4.0
• 10.6.0
• 10.6.0.0
• 10.6.0.1
• 10.6.0.2

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.hpe.com/

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