CVE-2025-37158

Medium

Published: 18 November 2025

Published

18 November 2025

Modified

04 December 2025

KEV Added

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Patch

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CVSS Score 6.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

EPSS Score 0.0005 16.8th percentile

Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-37158 is a medium-severity OS Command Injection (CWE-78) vulnerability in Hpe Arubaos-Cx. Its CVSS base score is 6.7 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation of Remote Services (T1210); ranked at the 16.8th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and SI-2 (Flaw Remediation).

Threat & Defense at a Glance

What attackers do: exploitation maps to Exploitation of Remote Services (T1210) and 1 other technique. What defenders deploy: see the NIST 800-53 controls recommended below.

Threat & Defense Details

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI

SI-2 Flaw Remediation good match

prevent

Directly mitigates the command injection vulnerability by identifying, reporting, and applying vendor patches as specified in the HPE advisory.

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match

prevent

Prevents command injection attacks by validating and sanitizing inputs at points where user-supplied commands are processed in the AOS-CX OS.

AC-6 Least Privilege partial match

prevent

Limits the impact of successful RCE from authenticated remote attackers by enforcing least privilege on user accounts accessing the system.

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1210 Exploitation of Remote Services Lateral Movement

Adversaries may exploit remote services to gain unauthorized access to internal systems once inside of a network.

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T1059.008 Network Device CLI Execution

Adversaries may abuse scripting or built-in command line interpreters (CLI) on network devices to execute malicious command and payloads.

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Why these techniques?

Command injection vulnerability enables exploitation of remote services (T1210) and arbitrary command execution via network device CLI (T1059.008).

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

NVD Description

A command injection vulnerability exists in the AOS-CX Operating System. Successful exploitation could allow an authenticated remote attacker to conduct a Remote Code Execution (RCE) on the affected system.

Deeper analysisAI

CVE-2025-37158 is a command injection vulnerability (CWE-78) affecting the AOS-CX Operating System. Published on 2025-11-18T19:15:47.700, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.7 (AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N). Successful exploitation enables an authenticated remote attacker to achieve remote code execution (RCE) on the impacted system.

An authenticated remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to inject and execute arbitrary commands. Despite the CVSS vector indicating local access (AV:L), high attack complexity (AC:H), and no privileges required (PR:N), the description specifies remote exploitation by an authenticated user, resulting in high impacts to confidentiality and integrity but no availability disruption.

Mitigation details are available in the HPE security advisory at https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=hpesbnw04888en_us&docLocale=en_US.