CVE-2025-37171
Published: 13 January 2026
Summary
CVE-2025-37171 is a high-severity OS Command Injection (CWE-78) vulnerability in Arubanetworks Arubaos. Its CVSS base score is 7.2 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 17.5th 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).
Deeper analysis
CVE-2025-37171 is an authenticated command injection vulnerability, classified under CWE-78, in the web-based management interface of mobility conductors running the AOS-8 operating system. It carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.2 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H) and was published on 2026-01-13T20:16:05.090.
The vulnerability can be exploited by an authenticated malicious actor with high privileges (PR:H). Successful exploitation allows the attacker to execute arbitrary commands as a privileged user on the underlying operating system, resulting in high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts.
Mitigation details are available in the HPE security advisory at https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=hpesbnw04987en_us&docLocale=en_US.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2026-2062
Vulnerability details
Authenticated command injection vulnerabilities exist in the web-based management interface of mobility conductors running AOS-8 operating system. Successful exploitation could allow an authenticated malicious actor to execute arbitrary commands as a privileged user on the underlying operating system.
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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Authenticated command injection (CWE-78) in web management interface directly enables remote OS command execution via T1190 (exploiting the network-accessible app) and T1059.004 (Unix shell on AOS-8).
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Directly requires validation and sanitization of untrusted input to the web management interface, blocking the command injection payload before OS command execution.
Limits the set of privileged operations available to authenticated management users, reducing the blast radius if a command injection succeeds.
Mandates timely application of vendor patches that remediate the authenticated command-injection flaw in the AOS-8 web interface.