CVE-2025-37176
Published: 13 January 2026
Summary
CVE-2025-37176 is a medium-severity Command Injection (CWE-77) vulnerability in Arubanetworks Arubaos. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 12.1th 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-7 (Software, Firmware, and Information Integrity).
Deeper analysis
CVE-2025-37176 is a command injection vulnerability (CWE-77) in AOS-8. It enables an authenticated privileged user to alter a package header and inject shell commands, which can affect the execution of internal operations. The vulnerability was published on 2026-01-13 with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.5 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N).
An authenticated malicious actor with privileged user access (PR:H) can exploit this vulnerability remotely over the network (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L) and without user interaction (UI:N). Successful exploitation allows the attacker to execute arbitrary shell commands with the privileges of the impacted mechanism, resulting in high impacts to confidentiality (C:H) and integrity (I:H), but no availability impact (A:N).
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-2026-2046
Vulnerability details
A command injection vulnerability in AOS-8 allows an authenticated privileged user to alter a package header to inject shell commands, potentially affecting the execution of internal operations. Successful exploit could allow an authenticated malicious actor to execute commands with the…
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privileges of the impacted mechanism.
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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Command injection in remote authenticated interface directly enables exploitation of public-facing app (T1190) and arbitrary Unix shell command execution (T1059.004).
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Directly requires validation of package header inputs to block command injection strings before they reach the shell execution path.
Mandates cryptographic or integrity verification of packages and headers to detect and reject tampering that enables command injection.
Enforces least-privilege execution for the affected internal mechanism, limiting the scope of commands that can be successfully injected by a privileged user.