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CVE-2026-72577: NASA fprime-gds - Missing Authentication and Path Traversal Enable Unauthenticated RCE and Spacecraft Command Injection

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-08-10 · updated 2026-10-24
• Weakness: CWE-306

Description

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.

Affected products

• NASA fprime-gds: through 3.4.3

References

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

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