CVE-2025-37138 Command injection in ArubaOS (AOS)
Authenticated attackers with physical access can execute arbitrary commands as a privileged user on ArubaOS network devices.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-37138?
CVE-2025-37138 is a medium-severity command injection vulnerability in Arubanetworks Arubaos, published on 14 Oct 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
An authenticated command injection vulnerability exists in the command line interface binary of AOS-10 GW and AOS-8 Controllers/Mobility Conductor operating system. Exploitation of this vulnerability requires physical access to the hardware controllers. A successful attack could allow an authenticated malicious actor with physical access to execute arbitrary commands as a privileged user on the underlying operating system.
Weakness: CWE-77
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-37138?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Arubanetworks Arubaos.
How do I fix CVE-2025-37138?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-37138 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.
Is CVE-2025-37138 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-37138 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-jr3w-w834-fj2p.