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ghsa-979m-m2hv-h8pf

Vulnerability from github

Published

2025-08-15 09:31

Modified

2025-08-15 09:31

Severity ?

4.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
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

Details

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.

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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

CWE-416 - Use After Free
CWE-119 - Memory Corruption

Summary

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://vuldb.com/?id.320081	vdb-entry, technical-description
	https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.320081	signature, permissions-required
	https://vuldb.com/?submit.624722	third-party-advisory
	https://github.com/PX4/PX4-Autopilot/issues/25046	issue-tracking
	https://github.com/PX4/PX4-Autopilot/pull/25082	issue-tracking
	https://github.com/PX4/PX4-Autopilot/pull/25082/commits/4395d4f00c49b888f030f5b43e2a779f1fa78708	issue-tracking, patch

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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Sightings

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Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or seen somewhere by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability is confirmed from an analyst perspective.
Exploited: This vulnerability was exploited and seen by the user reporting the sighting.
Patched: This vulnerability was successfully patched by the user reporting the sighting.
Not exploited: This vulnerability was not exploited or seen by the user reporting the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expresses doubt about the veracity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: This vulnerability was not successfully patched by the user reporting the sighting.

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