CVE-2023-35981 Unauthenticated Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities in Services Accessed by the PAPI Protocol
Unauthenticated attackers can execute arbitrary code with privileged access on Aruba Access Points via buffer overflows in the PAPI protocol.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2023-35981?
CVE-2023-35981 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability in Arubanetworks Arubaos, published on 25 Jul 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
There are buffer overflow vulnerabilities in multiple underlying services 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.
Weakness: CWE-120
Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-35981?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Arubanetworks Arubaos, Hp Instantos.
How do I fix CVE-2023-35981?
No fix has been published for CVE-2023-35981 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2023-35981 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-35981 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Arubanetworks Arubaos
- CVE-2024-42393 Memory corruption in Hpe Aruba Networking InstantOS and Aruba Access Points running ArubaOS 10
- CVE-2024-42394 Memory corruption in HPE Aruba Networking InstantOS and Aruba Access Points running ArubaOS 10
- CVE-2024-42395 Memory corruption in HPE Aruba Networking InstantOS and Aruba Access Points running ArubaOS 10
- CVE-2024-31466 Unauthenticated Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities in CLI Service Accessed by the PAPI Protocol
- CVE-2024-31467 Unauthenticated Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities in CLI Service Accessed by the PAPI Protocol
Sources
Also known as GHSA-r799-cqfw-5v59.