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GHSA-979M-M2HV-H8PF

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-08-15 09:31 – Updated: 2025-08-15 09:31

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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.

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

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CVE-2025-9020 (GCVE-0-2025-9020)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-15 07:32 – Updated: 2025-08-15 16:34

Title

PX4 PX4-Autopilot Mavlink Shell Closing mavlink_receiver.cpp handle_message_serial_control use after free

Summary

Severity

2 (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/E:X

4.5 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:X/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/E:X/RL:O/RC:C

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-08-15 16:33 UTC

CWE

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

Assigner

VulDB mitre root

References

6 references

URL	Tags
https://vuldb.com/?id.320081	vdb-entrytechnical-description
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.320081	signaturepermissions-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/c…	issue-trackingpatch

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
PX4	PX4-Autopilot	Affected: 1.15.0 Affected: 1.15.1 Affected: 1.15.2 Affected: 1.15.3 Affected: 1.15.4

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0x20z (VulDB User)

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