HPE Instant AOS-10 CLI Service command injection

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in HPE Aruba Networking Access Point, Instant AOS-8 and Instant AOS-10. It has been classified as critical. The affected element is an unknown function of the component CLI Service. This manipulation causes command injection. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2024-47460. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in HPE Aruba Networking Access Point, Instant AOS-8 and Instant AOS-10 (unknown version). Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block of the component CLI Service. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a command injection vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Command injection vulnerability in the underlying CLI service 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.

It is possible to read the advisory at support.hpe.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-47460 since 09/24/2024. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. 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 11/08/2024). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1202 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 210481 (ArubaOS 10.4.x < 10.4.1.5 / 10.7.0.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities (HPESBNW04722)), 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 (210481). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• HPE

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• Aruba Networking Access Point
• Instant AOS-8
• Instant AOS-10

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.hpe.com/

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