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Hewlett Packard Enterprise Fabric Composer: privilege escalation

Medium4.4CVE-2026-73740 · Published Sep 1, 2026 · updated Sep 3, 2026

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.

Affected versions

PackageAffectedFixed in
Fabric Composer
Product
>= 7.0.0, <= 7.3.3No fix yet
Details and references
CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Severity from
the vendor (its own CVE record or advisory)
Weakness
CWE-269

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