CVE-2025-37174
Published: 13 January 2026
Summary
CVE-2025-37174 is a high-severity Insecure Inherited Permissions (CWE-277) 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 37.5th 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 AC-3 (Access Enforcement) and AC-6 (Least Privilege).
Deeper analysis
An authenticated arbitrary file write vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-37174, exists in the web-based management interface of mobility conductors running either AOS-10 or AOS-8 operating systems. Published on 2026-01-13, this flaw corresponds to CWE-277 and 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), indicating high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts with network accessibility and low attack complexity.
The vulnerability can be exploited by an authenticated malicious actor possessing high privileges. Successful exploitation enables the attacker to create or modify arbitrary files and execute arbitrary commands as a privileged user on the underlying operating system, potentially resulting in full system compromise.
Mitigation guidance is provided in the HPE security advisory available at https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=hpesbnw04987en_us&docLocale=en_US.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2026-2058
Vulnerability details
Authenticated arbitrary file write vulnerability exists in the web-based management interface of mobility conductors running either AOS-10 or AOS-8 operating systems. Successful exploitation could allow an authenticated malicious actor to create or modify arbitrary files and execute arbitrary commands as…
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a privileged user on the underlying operating system.
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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Web management interface vuln enables public-facing app exploitation (T1190); arbitrary file write + command exec directly supports web shell deployment (T1100) and command/script execution (T1059) as privileged user.
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Limits privileges of authenticated web-interface users so they cannot perform arbitrary file writes or command execution on the OS.
Enforces authorization checks on file-system and command operations attempted through the management interface, blocking the unauthorized writes described in the CVE.
Validates all inputs received via the web management interface to reject malformed requests that would otherwise result in arbitrary file creation or modification.