CVE-2025-37176 Authenticated Command Injection Vulnerability in an AOS-8 operating system's internal workflow
Authenticated privileged users can inject shell commands via package headers in ArubaOS, enabling arbitrary code execution with elevated privileges.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-37176?
CVE-2025-37176 is a medium-severity command injection vulnerability in Arubanetworks Arubaos, published on 13 Jan 2026. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Official description
A command injection vulnerability in AOS-8 allows an authenticated privileged user to alter a package header to inject shell commands, potentially affecting the execution of internal operations. Successful exploit could allow an authenticated malicious actor to execute commands with the privileges of the impacted mechanism.
Weakness: CWE-77
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-37176?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Arubanetworks Arubaos.
How do I fix CVE-2025-37176?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-37176 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-2025-37176 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-37176 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-rx4q-53fc-mcc4.