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FKIE_CVE-2026-46562

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-07-16 17:16 - Updated: 2026-07-20 01:53
Severity
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Yamcs is a mission control framework. Prior to 5.12.7, the Nashorn ScriptEngine used to evaluate user-supplied JavaScript algorithm text in yamcs-core/src/main/java/org/yamcs/algorithms/ScriptAlgorithmExecutorFactory.java was constructed without a ClassFilter, so a user with the ChangeMissionDatabase privilege could override an algorithm through the MdbOverrideApi.updateAlgorithm endpoint and supply JavaScript that reaches arbitrary Java classes (for example Java.type("java.lang.Runtime").getRuntime().exec(...)) to execute arbitrary OS commands as the Yamcs process; in the default configuration with no security.yaml the built-in guest user has superuser=true, making the issue reachable without authentication. This issue is fixed in versions 5.12.7 and 5.13.0, which disable algorithm editing by default.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/yamcs/yamcs/commit/3c550348f866af4675d2ba4a51d8d12b7c7c6011Patch
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/yamcs/yamcs/commit/4ff8fda642ea8c3309a4d3f379aa77b763148992Patch
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/yamcs/yamcs/releases/tag/yamcs-5.12.7Release Notes
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/yamcs/yamcs/releases/tag/yamcs-5.13.0Release Notes
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/yamcs/yamcs/security/advisories/GHSA-vmwp-vh32-rj75Exploit, Vendor Advisory
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0https://github.com/yamcs/yamcs/security/advisories/GHSA-vmwp-vh32-rj75Exploit, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
spaceapplications yamcs *
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  "lastModified": "2026-07-20T01:53:17.737",
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