# CVE-2022-37909: Information disclosure in Aruba Mobility Conductor (formerly Mobility Master); Aruba Mobility Controllers; WLAN Gateways and SD-WAN Gateways managed by Aruba Central

> ArubaOS configurations may disclose sensitive ESSID information, requiring specific complex scenarios for exploitation.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 3 Nov 2022
- **Updated:** 2 May 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-7724-hcxw-879r

## What is CVE-2022-37909?

CVE-2022-37909 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Arubanetworks Arubaos, published on 3 Nov 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Aruba has identified certain configurations of ArubaOS that can lead to sensitive information disclosure from the configured ESSIDs. The scenarios in which disclosure of potentially sensitive information can occur are complex, and depend on factors beyond the control of attackers.

Weakness: CWE-200 (Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-37909?

It affects 2 products.


Products: Arubanetworks Arubaos, Arubanetworks Sd-Wan.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-37909?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-37909 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2022-37909 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-37909 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Arubanetworks Arubaos

- [CVE-2024-42393](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-42393/): Memory corruption in Hpe Aruba Networking InstantOS and Aruba Access Points running ArubaOS 10 (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2024-42394](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-42394/): Memory corruption in HPE Aruba Networking InstantOS and Aruba Access Points running ArubaOS 10 (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2024-42395](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-42395/): Memory corruption in HPE Aruba Networking InstantOS and Aruba Access Points running ArubaOS 10 (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2024-31466](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-31466/): Unauthenticated Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities in CLI Service Accessed by the PAPI Protocol (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2024-31467](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-31467/): Unauthenticated Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities in CLI Service Accessed by the PAPI Protocol (critical 9.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-37909 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-37909 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Arubanetworks Arubaos, published on 3 Nov 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-37909 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Arubanetworks Arubaos. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-37909/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-37909/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-37909
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-37909
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-37909

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-37909/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.