{"id":"CVE-2026-79878","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-79878","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T04:33:33.466Z","title":"A command injection vulnerability in the AOS-8 command line interface accessed by the PAPI protocol could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution by an adjacent attacker sending specially crafted PAPI packets destined to the PAPI UDP port 8211.","description":"A command injection vulnerability in the AOS-8 command line interface accessed by the PAPI protocol could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution by an adjacent attacker sending specially crafted PAPI packets destined to the PAPI UDP port 8211. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code as a privileged user on the underlying operating system.","published":"2026-10-22T19:18:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-26T14:18:55.000Z","status":"Awaiting Analysis","sourceIdentifier":"security-alert@hpe.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":[],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00822,"percentile":0.57103,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[{"date":"2026-10-23","score":0.00192,"percentile":0.08425}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.82%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[{"kind":"new","label":"New CVE","at":"2026-10-22T19:18:00.000Z","detail":{"score":"8.8","severity":"HIGH","publishedAt":"2026-10-22T19:18:00.273Z"},"summary":"New CVE, high severity (CVSS 8.8)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=hpesbnw05162en_us&docLocale=en_US","source":"security-alert@hpe.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-79878","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}