CVE-2026-102809 (GCVE-0-2026-102809)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-29 17:22
Modified
2026-09-29 18:14
Severity ?
7.1 (High) - CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-789 - Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value
Summary
PX4 Autopilot through 1.17.0 contains an uncontrolled stack allocation vulnerability in the file2 test command that fails to validate the write chunk size parameter. Attackers with shell access can supply an excessively large value to the -c option to trigger stack overflow and crash the flight controller.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PX4 | PX4-Autopilot |
Version: 0 ≤ 1.17.0 |
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