HPE Discloses 72 Vulnerabilities in AOS-10 and AOS-8 Wireless LAN Operating Systems, 33 Rated Critical
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has disclosed multiple vulnerabilities in its wireless LAN operating systems AOS-10 and AOS-8. The company released a security advisory on October 22, 2026, revealing a total of 72 vulnerabilities identified by CVE identifiers.
The affected products include mobility controllers, gateways, access points, and virtual machines running these operating systems. Out of the 72 issues, 33 were classified as Critical, the highest severity level in the four-tier scale used by HPE.
Eight vulnerabilities received the maximum CVSSv3.1 base score of 10.0. No reports of active exploitation had been confirmed at the time the advisory was published.
Key Vulnerabilities
- CVE-2026-79847 — buffer overflow in AOS-10
- CVE-2026-79846 — command injection in AOS-8 under specific conditions
- CVE-2026-79848 and CVE-2026-79849 — SQL injection flaws in AOS-8
Several of the vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely without authentication, potentially allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected devices.
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