Vulnerability in AOS firmware allows for Authenticated Local malicious actor to Permanently Disable Boot

published 2025-10-14 last yr. modified 2026-10-08 last mo. also EUVD-2025-34436

cvss: 6.0; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.1%; EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 3%
public exploits: 0; none known

A vulnerability in an AOS firmware binary allows an authenticated malicious actor to permanently delete necessary boot information. Successful exploitation may render the system unbootable, resulting in a Denial of Service that can only be resolved by replacing the affected hardware.

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: last yr. (2025-10-14)

Exploit prediction

0.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 3% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	6.0	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) ArubaOS (AOS)

Classification

Weakness

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

support.hpe.com /hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=hpesbnw04957en_us&docLocale=en_US

Sources

CVE List CVE-2025-37139
NVD CVE-2025-37139

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