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HPE Patches Critical RCE Vulnerabilities in AOS-CX

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CyberNew Threat Research Desk
• Original Reporting: SecurityWeek
CyberNew Threat Intel Assessment
Assessed Severity: CRITICAL
Impacted Surface
Cloud & Distributed Infrastructure
Intelligence Sector
Vulnerabilities & CVEs

Analyst Takeaway

"Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has released patches for 34 CVEs in the Aruba Networking ArubaOS-CX (AOS-CX) platform, including critical-severity remote code execution (RCE) flaws. Per HPT’s advisory , more than 150 flaws were resolved in AOS-CX versions 10.18.1002, 10.17.1030, 10.16.1060, 10.13.1190, and 10.10.1181. Many of these bugs are tracked together under single CVEs. Nearly two dozen..."

Recommended Defense & Mitigation

  • Emergency Patching: Prioritize vendor patches and CVE mitigation across internet-facing assets immediately.
  • Perimeter Audit: Inspect perimeter firewall logs and hunt for unauthorized RCE indicators.
Curated & Verified by CyberNew Threat Intelligence Desk Standard Defense Framework (NIST / MITRE ATT&CK)

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has released patches for 34 CVEs in the Aruba Networking ArubaOS-CX (AOS-CX) platform, including critical-severity remote code execution (RCE) flaws.

Per HPT’s advisory, more than 150 flaws were resolved in AOS-CX versions 10.18.1002, 10.17.1030, 10.16.1060, 10.13.1190, and 10.10.1181. Many of these bugs are tracked together under single CVEs.

Nearly two dozen issues, tracked collectively as CVE-2026-73749 (CVSS score of 9.8), were addressed with the updates.

The critical security defects are rooted in the improper processing of malformed input sent to an unnamed service within HPE’s database-centric operating system for enterprise switches.

According to the company, an unauthenticated attacker could exploit the security defects by sending crafted packets to the vulnerable service, achieving RCE with elevated privileges.

The fresh updates also resolve 22 high-severity CVEs that could lead to denial-of-service (DoS), RCE, arbitrary command execution, arbitrary script code execution in a victim’s browser, authentication bypass, privilege escalation, and information disclosure.

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All the remaining 11 CVEs are medium-severity flaws leading to access controls bypass, information disclosure, arbitrary file reads, DoS, and privilege escalation.

Written By Ionut Arghire

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