CVE-2025-9020 (GCVE-0-2025-9020)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-15 07:32
Modified
2025-08-15 16:34
Severity ?
2.0 (Low) - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
4.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/RL:O/RC:C
4.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/RL:O/RC:C
CWE
Summary
A vulnerability was found in PX4 PX4-Autopilot up to 1.15.4. This issue affects the function MavlinkReceiver::handle_message_serial_control of the file src/modules/mavlink/mavlink_receiver.cpp of the component Mavlink Shell Closing Handler. The manipulation of the argument _mavlink_shell leads to use after free. An attack has to be approached locally. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The identifier of the patch is 4395d4f00c49b888f030f5b43e2a779f1fa78708. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.
References
cna@vuldb.comhttps://github.com/PX4/PX4-Autopilot/issues/25046
cna@vuldb.comhttps://github.com/PX4/PX4-Autopilot/pull/25082
cna@vuldb.comhttps://github.com/PX4/PX4-Autopilot/pull/25082/commits/4395d4f00c49b888f030f5b43e2a779f1fa78708
cna@vuldb.comhttps://vuldb.com/?ctiid.320081
cna@vuldb.comhttps://vuldb.com/?id.320081
cna@vuldb.comhttps://vuldb.com/?submit.624722
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
PX4 PX4-Autopilot Version: 1.15.0
Version: 1.15.1
Version: 1.15.2
Version: 1.15.3
Version: 1.15.4
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