CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-86096
6.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Awaiting Analysis
- Published
- 2026-09-04
- Last modified
- 2026-09-10
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
- 6.0 MEDIUM — CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
PX4 Autopilot through 1.17.0 contains a use-after-free vulnerability in TemperatureCalibration::start() due to a race condition between task spawning and object deletion. Attackers can trigger the calibration process via shell commands to write to freed heap memory, corrupting unrelated objects or allocator metadata and destabilizing heap operations.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- https://github.com/PX4/PX4-Autopilot github.com
- https://github.com/PX4/PX4-Autopilot/blob/v1.17.0/src/modules/temperature_compensation/temperature_calibration/task.cpp github.com
- https://github.com/PX4/PX4-Autopilot/commit/b182e523d154fe029a49b48bb5f9d3d6693bc6bb github.com
- https://github.com/PX4/PX4-Autopilot/pull/28487 github.com
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/px4-autopilot-through-1.17.0-use-after-free-via-temperature-calibration-task-startup www.vulncheck.com