Medium severity · published Sep 29, 2026
CVE-2026-76732
Authenticated Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in a Daemon of HPE Networking Instant ON
6.4
CVSS
0.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A local privilege-escalation vulnerability has been discovered in the affected daemon of HPE Networking Instant ON. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a local attacker to achieve arbitrary code execution with root privileges if certain preconditions are met outside of the attacker's control.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
High
Privileges
High
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.1% · higher than 1% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
IO
Instant ON · Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
0.0.0.0 through 3.4.1.0 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-76732
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-76732
support.hpe.com
https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=hpesbnw05150en_us&docLocale=en_US
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