CVE-2025-37161VulnerabilityPublished 18 Nov 2025

CVE-2025-37161: Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) HPE Aruba Networking 100 Series Cellular Bridge · Vulnerability

Affects Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) HPE Aruba Networking 100 Series Cellular BridgeSource CVE Database V5

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 7.5 High.

Data as of 25 Oct 2026, 19:02 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score

7.5High

How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 35% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.

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

Attack Vector: Network
Attack Complexity: Low
Privileges Required: None
User Interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality: None
Integrity: None
Availability: High

Bold values are the worst case: easiest to exploit or largest impact.

Attack Vector: Network: The vulnerable component is bound to the network stack and the set of possible attackers extends beyond the other options listed, up to and including the entire Internet. Such a vulnerability is often termed 'remotely exploitable' and can be thought of as an attack being exploitable at the protocol level one or more network hops away (e.g., across one or more routers).
Attack Complexity: Low: Specialized access conditions or extenuating circumstances do not exist. An attacker can expect repeatable success against the vulnerable component.
Privileges Required: None: The attacker is unauthorized prior to attack, and therefore does not require any access to settings or files to carry out an attack.
User Interaction: None: The vulnerable system can be exploited without any interaction from any user.
Scope: Unchanged: An exploited vulnerability can only affect resources managed by the same security authority. In this case, the vulnerable component and the impacted component are either the same, or both are managed by the same security authority.
Confidentiality: None: There is no loss of confidentiality within the impacted component.
Integrity: None: There is no loss of integrity within the impacted component.
Availability: High: There is total loss of availability, resulting in the attacker being able to fully deny access to resources in the impacted component; this loss is either sustained (while the attacker continues to deliver the attack) or persistent (the condition persists even after the attack has completed). Alternatively, the attacker has the ability to deny some availability, but the loss of availability presents a direct, serious consequence to the impacted component (e.g., the attacker cannot disrupt existing connections, but can prevent new connections; the attacker can repeatedly exploit a vulnerability that, in each instance of a successful attack, leaks a only small amount of memory, but after repeated exploitation causes a service to become completely unavailable).

Definitions: FIRST CVSS v3.1 specification.

Exploitation evidence

Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 18 Nov 2025
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponised: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 2026-10-25.

Disclosed: The CVE record is public on cve.org. Its publication is t = 0.
Detectable: A public nuclei template can find exposed instances, for defenders and attackers alike.
Weaponised: Public exploit code exists in Metasploit or Exploit-DB, or CISA SSVC reports a public proof of concept.
Exploited in the wild: CISA KEV lists it, CISA SSVC rates exploitation active, or a source reports attacks.
Observed by OffSeq Mirage: OffSeq Mirage honeypot sensors recorded attack traffic for this CVE, or found exposed hosts without attack traffic.

Moments are spaced evenly, not to scale; a dashed line marks a gap of six months or more. Deltas count from t = 0. Sources that give only a date (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, or a time of exactly 00:00Z) read “same day” rather than hours. Metasploit modules carry the flaw’s disclosure date, not their release date, and nuclei templates carry no date, so both appear above but not on the timeline.

What to do

Affected software

Product	Affected	Fixed in
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) HPE Aruba Networking 100 Series Cellular Bridge	Affected =10.7.0.0	Fixed in–

AI-suggested

1. Immediately restrict access to the web-based management interface of the affected HPE Aruba 100 Series Cellular Bridge devices by implementing network segmentation and firewall rules limiting management traffic to trusted IP addresses only. 2. Monitor HPE advisories closely for the release of official patches or firmware updates addressing CVE-2025-37161 and apply them promptly once available. 3. Implement network intrusion detection/prevention systems (IDS/IPS) to detect and block suspicious traffic patterns targeting the management interface. 4. Employ strong network access controls and consider disabling the web management interface if remote management is not required or use alternative secure management methods such as VPNs or out-of-band management. 5. Develop and test incident response procedures to quickly identify and recover from denial of service events caused by this vulnerability, including manual reboot protocols. 6. Conduct regular vulnerability assessments and penetration testing focusing on network devices to identify similar weaknesses proactively. 7. Educate network operations teams about this vulnerability and the importance of monitoring device health and logs for signs of exploitation attempts.

Description

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of affected products could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause a denial of service. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to crash the system, preventing it from rebooting without manual intervention and disrupting network operations.

Impact

The primary impact of CVE-2025-37161 is the disruption of network operations due to denial of service on HPE Aruba 100 Series Cellular Bridge devices. For European organizations, this can translate into significant operational downtime, especially in sectors relying on cellular connectivity for remote sites, IoT deployments, or failover network paths. Critical infrastructure sectors such as energy, transportation, and manufacturing that use these devices for cellular bridging may experience interruptions affecting service delivery and safety systems. The inability of the device to reboot automatically after a crash increases recovery time and operational costs. Additionally, the unauthenticated nature of the exploit means that attackers do not need credentials or user interaction, increasing the risk of widespread exploitation if the vulnerability is targeted. While confidentiality and integrity are not directly impacted, the availability impact alone can have cascading effects on business continuity and regulatory compliance within the European Union and other jurisdictions with strict uptime requirements.

CWE-400Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (opens in a new tab)
Class weaknessLikelihood of exploit: High
The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource.
MITRE discourages mapping vulnerabilities to this broad entry; the root cause is usually a more specific weakness.
Architecture and Design
Design throttling mechanisms into the system architecture. The best protection is to limit the amount of resources that an unauthorized user can cause to be expended. A strong authentication and access control model will help prevent such attacks from occurring in the first place.
Architecture and Design
Mitigation of resource exhaustion attacks requires that the target system either: recognizes the attack and denies that user further access for a given amount of time, or; uniformly throttles all requests in order to make it more difficult to consume resources more quickly than they can again be freed.
Architecture and Design
Ensure that protocols have specific limits of scale placed on them.
OWASP Cheat Sheets
File Upload (opens in a new tab)
OWASP ASVS 4.0.3
V12.1.1 (opens in a new tab)
Attack patterns
XML Ping of the Death (opens in a new tab)
Regular Expression Exponential Blowup (opens in a new tab)
Sustained Client Engagement (opens in a new tab)
From MITRE CWE, MITRE CAPEC and OWASP (Top 10, OpenCRE).

References

support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=hpesbnw04970en_us&docLocale=en_US (opens in a new tab)

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Exploitation evidence

What to do

Affected software

Description

AI analysisMachine-generated, updated 25 Nov 2025, 21:06 UTC

WeaknessesCWE-400

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