CVE-2026-79861

CRITICAL 9.8CVE-2026-79861 · Published 22/10/2026 · updated 26/10/2026

In short

CVE-2026-79861 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability.
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.7%, higher than 77.0% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
—	No affected product versions are listed for this vulnerability yet.

Description

There is a command injection vulnerability in AOS-10 that could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution by sending specially crafted PAPI packets. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability results in the ability to execute arbitrary code as a privileged user on the underlying operating system.

References

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