CVE-2026-72577
NASA fprime-gds - Missing Authentication and Path Traversal Enable Unauthenticated RCE and Spacecraft Command Injection
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 9.8 Critical
- Published
- Aug 10, 2026
- Updated
- Aug 10, 2026
- Reserved
- Aug 10, 2026
Description
Multiple vulnerabilities in NASA fprime-gds through 3.4.3 allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to achieve arbitrary code execution on the ground station host and inject arbitrary commands to connected spacecraft. The Flask application in src/fprime_gds/flask/app.py applies no authentication to any endpoint.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 9.8 Critical | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | TuranSec |
Weaknesses
- CWE-306 Missing Authentication for Critical Function
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
fprime-gdsNASA |
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References
- Productthird-party-advisory
- PyPI Packagethird-party-advisory
- Vulnerable File (updown)technical-description
- Vulnerable File (commands)technical-description
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