NASA fprime-gds - Missing Authentication and Path Traversal Enable Unauthenticated RCE and Spacecraft Command Injection

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-72577",
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    "title": "NASA fprime-gds - Missing Authentication and Path Traversal Enable Unauthenticated RCE and Spacecraft Command Injection",
    "summary": "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.",
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:28.764542463Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/72xxx/CVE-2026-72577.json",
        "https://github.com/nasa/fprime-gds",
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        "https://pypi.org/project/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"
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  "published_at": "2026-08-10T10:41:06.556+00:00"
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