CVE-2026-72577

CRITICAL 9.8

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

CVSS Score

9.8

EPSS Score

0.0%

EPSS Percentile

0th

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.

CWE	CWE-306
Vendor	nasa
Product	fprime-gds
Published	Aug 10, 2026
Last Updated	Aug 10, 2026

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CVSS v3 Breakdown

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

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Affected Versions

NASA / fprime-gds

0 ≤ 3.4.3

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗

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

Credits

Adrian Gaitan