NASA fprime-gds - Missing Authentication and Path Traversal Enable Unauthenticated RCE and Spacecraft Command Injection

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Summary

CVECVE-2026-72577
StatePUBLISHED
AssignerTuranSec
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2026-08-10 11:17:30 UTC
Updated2026-08-10 14:17:28 UTC
DescriptionMultiple 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v3.1 9.8 CRITICAL from 309f9ea4-e3e9-4c6c-b79d-e8eb01244f2c

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 0.008550000 probability, percentile 0.550160000 (date 2026-08-11)

Problem Types: CWE-306 | CWE-306 CWE-306: Missing Authentication for Critical Function

VersionSourceTypeScoreSeverityVector
3.1309f9ea4-e3e9-4c6c-b79d-e8eb01244f2cSecondary9.8CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
3.1CNACVSS9.8CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v3.1 Breakdown

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA NASA Fprime-gds affected 3.4.3 semver Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
github.com/nasa/fprime-gds 309f9ea4-e3e9-4c6c-b79d-e8eb01244f2c github.com
github.com/nasa/fprime-gds/blob/main/src/fprime_gds/flask/commands.py 309f9ea4-e3e9-4c6c-b79d-e8eb01244f2c github.com
pypi.org/project/fprime-gds 309f9ea4-e3e9-4c6c-b79d-e8eb01244f2c pypi.org
github.com/nasa/fprime-gds/blob/main/src/fprime_gds/flask/updown.py 309f9ea4-e3e9-4c6c-b79d-e8eb01244f2c github.com
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Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

CNA: Adrian Gaitan (en)

Additional Advisory Data

SourceTimeEvent
CNA2026-08-10T10:32:53.000ZCVE Reserved
CNA2026-08-10T10:32:53.000ZPublic Disclosure

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