Medium [CVE-2026-73740] Fabric Composer: 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
This medium-severity HPE Aruba Networking advisory covers CVE-2026-73740 affecting Fabric Composer.
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Summary
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.
- Fabric Composer 7.0.0 through 7.3.3
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Fixed versions
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Mitigation
The source record does not include mitigation steps. That is not a statement that no fix exists — read the vendor advisory below for the authoritative guidance.
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