---
id: CVE-2026-76732
title: >-
  A local privilege-escalation vulnerability has been discovered in the affected
  daemon of HPE Networking Instant ON
summary: >-
  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 …
severity: medium
cvss: 6.4
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'
vendor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
product: Instant ON
affected:
  - instant_on >= 0.0.0.0 <= 3.4.1.0
published: '2026-09-29'
updated: '2026-09-29'
sourceUpdated: '2026-09-29T21:39:02.570'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-76732'
references:
  - url: >-
      https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=hpesbnw05150en_us&docLocale=en_US
    label: security-alert@hpe.com
tags:
  - nvd
  - cve.org
ingestedAt: '2026-09-29T19:44:04.154Z'
---

## Overview

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.

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.