CVE-2026-79878
A command injection vulnerability in the AOS-8 command line interface accessed by the PAPI protocol…
- Risk score
- 64/100
- CVSS
- 8.8 v3.1
- Exploit chance (30 days)
- 0.8%
- Published
- 22 Oct 2026
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What to know
- What it is
- A command injection vulnerability in the AOS-8 command line interface accessed by the PAPI protocol could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution by an adjacent attacker sending specially crafted PAPI packets destined to the PAPI UDP port 8211. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary…
- Affected
- See advisory
- Fix
- Apply the vendor's security update; see the linked advisory.
- Exploitation
- No known exploitation
Why it is Amber
- CVSS 8.8 high
References
Original description
A command injection vulnerability in the AOS-8 command line interface accessed by the PAPI protocol could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution by an adjacent attacker sending specially crafted PAPI packets destined to the PAPI UDP port 8211. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code as a privileged user on the underlying operating system.
Last activity 22 Oct 2026. Patch Forecast updates every hour.