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.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-25040

CVSS Base Severity: LOW

CVSS Base Score: 3.3

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Affected Products

Vendor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

Product: AOS-CX

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.01% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 0.96% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-04-16 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: none

SSVC Technical Impact: partial

SSVC Automatable: false

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-25040
https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=hpesbnw04818en_us&docLocale=en_US

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