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CVE-2026-73725

high

A local privilege-escalation vulnerability has been discovered in HPE Networking Fabric Composer.

Vendor / product: Arubanetworks — fabric composer

A local privilege-escalation vulnerability has been discovered in HPE Networking Fabric Composer. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a local attacker to achieve arbitrary code execution with root privileges, leading to a complete compromise of the affected host.

CVSS
7.0
7.0 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (security-alert@hpe.com)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2026-09-01 20:17
Modified: 2026-09-02 16:17
NVD status: Modified
Last synced 1 day ago
Verified against the source API 2026-10-27 06:50 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

arubanetworks / fabric_composer <7.3.4

Weakness classification (CWE)

NVD-CWE-noinfo CWE-269

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

Vendor advisory: https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=hpesbnw05133en_us&docLocale=en_US

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-27 06:50 UTC · record ↗

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