CVE-2025-37163 Authenticated Command Injection Vulnerability in HPE Aruba Networking Management Software (AirWave) CLI

What is CVE-2025-37163?

CVE-2025-37163 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) HPE Aruba Networking Management Software (Airwave), published on 18 Nov 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A command injection vulnerability has been identified in the command line interface of the HPE Aruba Networking Airwave Platform. An authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary operating system commands with elevated privileges on the underlying operating system.

Weakness: CWE-77, CWE-78

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-37163?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Arubanetworks Airwave.

How do I fix CVE-2025-37163?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-37163 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-2025-37163 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-37163 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) HPE Aruba Networking Management Software (Airwave)

• CVE-2016-2031 Other in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2014-8368 Privilege escalation in n/a Critical 9.0
• CVE-2021-25166 Command injection in Aruba AirWave Management Platform High 8.8
• CVE-2021-25167 Command injection in Aruba AirWave Management Platform High 8.8
• CVE-2021-25151 Deserialization in Aruba AirWave Management Platform High 8.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-j565-rm3x-jxcx.