CVE-2026-23601 Frame Injection via Shared GTK Allows Traffic Spoofing and Client Compromise

What is CVE-2026-23601?

CVE-2026-23601 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Arubanetworks Arubaos, published on 4 Mar 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A vulnerability has been identified in the wireless encryption handling of Wi-Fi transmissions. A malicious actor can generate shared-key authenticated transmissions containing targeted payloads while impersonating the identity of a primary BSSID.Successful exploitation allows for the delivery of tampered data to specific endpoints, bypassing standard cryptographic separation.

Weakness: CWE-327

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-23601?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Arubanetworks Arubaos.

How do I fix CVE-2026-23601?

No fix has been published for CVE-2026-23601 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2026-23601 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-23601 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 Critical 9.8
• CVE-2024-42394 Memory corruption in HPE Aruba Networking InstantOS and Aruba Access Points running ArubaOS 10 Critical 9.8
• CVE-2024-42395 Memory corruption in HPE Aruba Networking InstantOS and Aruba Access Points running ArubaOS 10 Critical 9.8
• CVE-2024-31466 Unauthenticated Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities in CLI Service Accessed by the PAPI Protocol Critical 9.8
• CVE-2024-31467 Unauthenticated Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities in CLI Service Accessed by the PAPI Protocol Critical 9.8

All Arubanetworks Arubaos vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-hxv6-43wp-jffh.