HPE Aruba Patches Dozens of Flaws
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CERT-FR warns of 36 vulnerabilities in HPE Aruba AOS-Switch and ClearPass Policy Manager enabling RCE, privilege escalation and DoS; patches available.
CERT-FR has issued an advisory covering multiple vulnerabilities disclosed by HPE in its Aruba Networking product line, specifically affecting AOS-Switch (AOS-S) versions prior to 16.11.0032 and ClearPass Policy Manager (CPPM) versions prior to 6.11.16 and 6.14.1. The vulnerabilities span a wide range of impact types including remote arbitrary code execution, privilege escalation, remote denial of service, data integrity and confidentiality breaches, security policy bypass, cross-site scripting (XSS), and SQL injection.
The advisory references two HPE security bulletins (HPESBNW05156 and HPESBNW05158, both dated 6 October 2026) and enumerates 36 associated CVEs. No evidence of active exploitation in the wild is mentioned in the advisory. Defenders operating affected ClearPass Policy Manager or AOS-Switch deployments should prioritize patching given the presence of remote code execution and privilege escalation vectors, which could allow an attacker to fully compromise network access control and switching infrastructure.
As this is a vendor-issued patch bundle relayed by a national CERT, organizations should consult the linked HPE bulletins for per-CVE technical details and apply the referenced fixed versions as soon as operationally feasible.
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Source reporting: https://www.cert.ssi.gouv.fr/avis/CERTFR-2026-AVI-1277
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