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CVE-2026-72577

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

Published: Aug 10, 2026Updated: Aug 10, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVDCWE-306
9.8CRITICAL
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
0.9%
Top 44.4%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
No Fix Available
Self-Check
Not available

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.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:NUI:NS:UC:HI:HA:H
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:HConfidentiality
High
I:HIntegrity
High
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

CWE-306

Affected Products

NASA
commercial·US
fprime-gdsOn-prem
ICS / OT / IoT / industrial-network

Exploitability

No known exploits, KEV entries, or remediation guidance available for this vulnerability yet.
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MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques
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References

https://github.com/nasa/fprime-gds
github.com
https://pypi.org/project/fprime-gds/
pypi.org
https://github.com/nasa/fprime-gds/blob/main/src/fprime_gds/flask/updown.py
github.com
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