VULNERABILITY

Aruba AOS-CX: CVE-2025-25040: Failure to Properly Enforce Port ACLs on CPU generated packets in CX 9300 Switches

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Aruba AOS-CX: CVE-2025-25040: Failure to Properly Enforce Port ACLs on CPU generated packets in CX 9300 Switches

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
03/18/2025
Created
03/21/2025
Added
03/20/2025
Modified
03/20/2025

Description

A vulnerability has been identified in the port ACL functionality of AOS-CX software running on the HPE Aruba Networking CX 9300 Switch Series only and affects: - AOS-CX 10.14.xxxx : All patches - AOS-CX 10.15.xxxx : 10.15.1000 and below The vulnerability is specific to traffic originated by the CX 9300 switch platform and could allow an attacker to bypass ACL rules applied to routed ports on egress. As a result, port ACLs are not correctly enforced, which could lead to unauthorized traffic flow and violations of security policies. Egress VLAN ACLs and Routed VLAN ACLs are not affected by this vulnerability.

Solution(s)

  • aruba-aos-cx-cve-2025-25040

References

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