CVE-2025-37172
Published: 13 January 2026
Summary
CVE-2025-37172 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 25.5th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Likely Mitigating ControlsAI
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.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Authenticated command injection in web management interface directly enables T1190 for initial exploitation and T1059.004 for arbitrary Unix shell command execution as privileged user.
NVD Description
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.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-37172 describes authenticated command injection vulnerabilities (CWE-78) in the web-based management interface of mobility conductors running the AOS-8 operating system. These flaws enable an authenticated malicious actor to execute arbitrary commands as a privileged user on the underlying operating system. The vulnerability carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.2 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H) and was published on 2026-01-13.
Exploitation requires an attacker to have high-privilege (PR:H) authenticated access to the web-based management interface over the network, with low complexity and no user interaction needed. Successful attacks allow arbitrary command execution with privileged rights, resulting in high impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the affected system.
Mitigation details are provided in the HPE security advisory at https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=hpesbnw04987en_us&docLocale=en_US.
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