# CVE-2025-23053: Authenticated privilege escalation via broken access control

> Authenticated low-privilege users can escalate privileges to modify system settings in HPE Aruba Networking Fabric Composer.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 28 Jan 2025
- **Updated:** 13 Mar 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-cqc8-8583-c382

## What is CVE-2025-23053?

CVE-2025-23053 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Arubanetworks Fabric Composer, published on 28 Jan 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the web-based management interface of HPE Aruba Networking Fabric Composer. Successful exploitation could allow an authenticated low privilege operator user to change the state of certain settings of a vulnerable system.

Weakness: CWE-863 (Incorrect Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-23053?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Arubanetworks Fabric Composer.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-23053?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-23053 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-23053 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-23053 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Arubanetworks Fabric Composer

- [CVE-2026-76657](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-76657/): Authentication Bypass in HPE Networking Fabric Composer API allows Administrative Access (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2026-76658](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-76658/): Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in HPE Networking Fabric Composer SSH Daemon (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2026-19766](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-19766/): Authentication Bypass leads to Administrative control of adjacent network hosts in HPE Networking Fabric Composer (critical 9.6)
- [CVE-2026-73700](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-73700/): Cross-site scripting in Fabric Composer (critical 9.0)
- [CVE-2026-73701](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-73701/): Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in HPE Networking Fabric Composer (critical 9.0)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-23053 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-23053 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Arubanetworks Fabric Composer, published on 28 Jan 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-23053 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Arubanetworks Fabric Composer. 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-2025-23053/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-23053/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-23053
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-23053
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-23053

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-23053/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.