CVE-2025-37186
Published: 13 January 2026
Summary
CVE-2025-37186 is a high-severity Improper Privilege Management (CWE-269) vulnerability in Hpe (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 7.8 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked at the 0.3th 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
CVE-2025-37186 is a local privilege-escalation vulnerability in the HPE Aruba Networking Virtual Intranet Access (VIA) client. It enables a local attacker to achieve arbitrary code execution with root privileges, as identified under CWE-269 (Improper Privilege Management). The vulnerability received a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.8 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H) and was published on 2026-01-13.
A local attacker with low privileges, such as a standard user on the affected system, can exploit this vulnerability with low complexity and no user interaction required. Successful exploitation grants root-level arbitrary code execution, potentially allowing full system compromise, data theft, persistence, or further lateral movement within the environment.
The HPE advisory at https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=hpesbnw04994en_us&docLocale=en_US provides details on mitigation, including available patches and remediation steps for the VIA client. Security practitioners should consult this document for version-specific guidance and apply updates promptly.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2026-2034
Vulnerability details
A local privilege-escalation vulnerability has been discovered in the HPE Aruba Networking Virtual Intranet Access (VIA) client. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a local attacker to achieve arbitrary code execution with root privileges.
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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Local privilege escalation vulnerability directly enables T1068 (Exploitation for Privilege Escalation) to obtain root-level arbitrary code execution.
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Directly remediates the specific privilege-escalation flaw in the HPE Aruba VIA client by identifying, reporting, and applying vendor patches promptly.
Addresses CWE-269 improper privilege management by ensuring the VIA client and local processes operate with least privileges, blocking escalation to root.
Enforces access control policies via a reference monitor to prevent unauthorized privilege elevation from low-privileged local attackers exploiting the VIA client vulnerability.