# CVE-2025-37161: Unauthenticated Remote Denial-of-Service (DoS) Vulnerability in Web Management Interface

> Unauthenticated remote attackers can crash HPE Aruba Cellular Bridges, causing a denial of service that requires manual intervention to restore.

- **Severity:** High 7.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 18 Nov 2025
- **Updated:** 19 Nov 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-rcfx-p89h-m372

## What is CVE-2025-37161?

CVE-2025-37161 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Arubanetworks Arubaos, published on 18 Nov 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of affected products could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause a denial of service.  Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to crash the system, preventing it from rebooting without manual intervention and disrupting network operations.

Weakness: CWE-400 (Uncontrolled Resource Consumption)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-37161?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Arubanetworks Arubaos.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-37161?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-37161 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-37161 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-37161 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-2025-37161 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-37161 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Arubanetworks Arubaos, published on 18 Nov 2025. 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-2025-37161 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-2025-37161/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-37161/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-37161
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-37161
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-37161

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-37161/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.