Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-5563

Title: Arubanetworks Aruba Mobility Controller Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2008-5563.

CWE Category CWE-399

Published Date Dec 15, 2008

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.8 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.14%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-5563: Aruba Mobility Controller 2.4.8.x-FIPS, 2.5.x, 3.1.x, 3.2.x, 3.3.1.x, and 3.3.2.x allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device crash) via a malformed Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) frame.

Impacted Vendors

aruba_networks 2

arubanetworks 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/33057 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4728 http://www.arubanetworks.com/support/alerts/aid-12808.asc http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499014/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32694 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021362 http://secunia.com/advisories/33057 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4728 http://www.arubanetworks.com/support/alerts/aid-12808.asc http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499014/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32694 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021362

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2008-5563 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

December 15, 2008 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.