What is CVE-2026-23813?
A vulnerability has been identified in the web-based management interface of AOS-CX switches that could potentially allow an unauthenticated remote actor to circumvent existing authentication controls. In some cases this could enable resetting the admin password.
The record classifies CVE-2026-23813 under weakness class CWE-287. Its CVSS v3 base vector states that the flaw is reachable remotely over the network, needs no prior authentication, needs no user interaction, and has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability. 1 affected-product entry is recorded, across 1 vendor, listed below. The identifier was first published 208 days ago.
Severity and exploitation probability
- CVSS v3.1 base score
- 9.8 — CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS (FIRST)
- 0.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 19.7% of all scored CVEs
- CISA KEV
- Not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
- Threadlinqs priority
- 5.7/10 — a Threadlinqs composite of the CVSS base score, the EPSS percentile and public exploit availability
- Published
- 2026-03-11
Is CVE-2026-23813 being exploited?
It currently carries a trending score of 10 in the Threadlinqs vulnerability feed.
Affected products and versions
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE): AOS-CX
How to fix CVE-2026-23813
The record marks a vendor fix as available for CVE-2026-23813. No patch URL is recorded on this row, so the fixed version has to be read from the vendor advisory in the sources below.
Threat activity tracking CVE-2026-23813
1 tracked threat in the Threadlinqs corpus references CVE-2026-23813, either in the campaign’s CVE list or as an indicator on the campaign record.
- HPE Aruba AOS-CX Pre-Auth Admin Password Reset (CVE-2026-23813) — CRITICAL · 2026-03-17
Sources
Seeded from threadlinqs-intel and not yet processed by the Threadlinqs enrichment pipeline, so blank CVSS, EPSS or KEV fields above mean NOT MEASURED rather than measured-absent.