CVE-2024-42400 Unauthenticated Denial-of-Service (DoS) Vulnerabilities in the Soft AP Daemon Service Accessed by the PAPI Protocol

What is CVE-2024-42400?

CVE-2024-42400 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.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-42400?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Arubanetworks Arubaos, Hp Instantos.

How do I fix CVE-2024-42400?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-42400 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2024-42400 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-42400 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 Critical 9.8
• CVE-2024-42394 Memory corruption in HPE Aruba Networking InstantOS and Aruba Access Points running ArubaOS 10 Critical 9.8
• CVE-2024-42395 Memory corruption in HPE Aruba Networking InstantOS and Aruba Access Points running ArubaOS 10 Critical 9.8
• CVE-2024-31466 Unauthenticated Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities in CLI Service Accessed by the PAPI Protocol Critical 9.8
• CVE-2024-31467 Unauthenticated Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities in CLI Service Accessed by the PAPI Protocol Critical 9.8

All Arubanetworks Arubaos vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-3rxw-3rwx-9c67.