Local Privilege Escalation in HPE Networking Fabric Composer

published 2026-09-01 2 mo ago modified 2026-09-03 2 mo ago also EUVD-2026-69467

cvss: 4.4; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.1%; EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 3%
public exploits: 0; none known

A local privilege escalation vulnerability in HPE Networking Fabric Composer could allow an authenticated privileged user on the underlying host to elevate their user privileges to those of a higher role. A successful exploit allows the attacker to change the state of certain settings of the affected system.

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total
Assessed: 2 mo ago (2026-09-01)

Exploit prediction

0.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 3% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	4.4	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected products

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Fabric Composer

Classification

Weakness

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

References

support.hpe.com /hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=hpesbnw05133en_us&docLocale=en_US
vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2026-73740
NVD CVE-2026-73740

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Summary