CVE-2026-73749 is a critical buffer-overflow vulnerability in a daemon in HPE Aruba Networking ArubaOS-CX. The daemon improperly processes malformed input, enabling an unauthenticated remote attacker to send specially crafted packets to the affected service. Successful exploitation can execute attacker-controlled code with elevated privileges on the affected ArubaOS-CX device.
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Critical unauthenticated remote code-execution buffer overflow in an ArubaOS-CX daemon.
Critical unauthenticated remote code-execution vulnerability in ArubaOS-CX affecting CX-series switches; crafted packets can compromise vulnerable devices.
An unauthenticated remote code-execution vulnerability affecting an AOS-CX daemon. Crafted packets containing malformed input sent to the affected service may yield elevated-privilege code execution. The listed CVSS v3.1 vector is AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.
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Cross-references every affected SKU, including bundled OEM variants.
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