Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-22751

Critical

Published: 01 March 2023

Published
01 March 2023
Modified
07 March 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0045 64.2th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-22751 is a critical-severity Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787) vulnerability in Arubanetworks Arubaos. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 35.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

There are stack-based buffer overflow vulnerabilities that could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution by sending specially crafted packets destined to the PAPI (Aruba Networks access point management protocol) UDP port (8211). Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities result in the…

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ability to execute arbitrary code as a privileged user on the underlying operating system.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

arubanetworks
sd-wan
8.7.0.0-2.3.0.0 — 8.7.0.0-2.3.0.8
arubanetworks
arubaos
8.6.0.0 — 8.6.0.19 · 8.10.0.0 — 8.10.0.4 · 10.3.0.0 — 10.3.1.0

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-787

Out-of-bounds writes that corrupt control flow or inject shellcode are rendered non-executable by the same memory protections.

References