# CVE-2024-42398: Unauthenticated Denial-of-Service (DoS) Vulnerabilities in the Soft AP Daemon Service Accessed by the PAPI Protocol

> Unauthenticated attackers can cause denial of service on HPE Aruba Access Points via the PAPI protocol, disrupting network operations.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 6 Aug 2024
- **Updated:** 24 Mar 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-6r3g-hmqv-cpgr

## What is CVE-2024-42398?

CVE-2024-42398 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Arubanetworks Arubaos, published on 6 Aug 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Multiple unauthenticated Denial-of-Service (DoS) vulnerabilities exist in the Soft AP daemon accessed via the PAPI protocol. Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities results in the ability to interrupt the normal operation of the affected Access Point.

Weakness: CWE-400 (Uncontrolled Resource Consumption)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-42398?

It affects 2 products.


Products: Arubanetworks Arubaos, Hp Instantos.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-42398?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-42398 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-42398 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-42398 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-2024-42398 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-42398 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Arubanetworks Arubaos, published on 6 Aug 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-42398 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-2024-42398/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-42398/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-42398
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-42398
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-42398

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-42398/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.