Advisories

PX4 Autopilot through 1.17.0 Null Pointer Dereference via param select

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severity
high
date
Affecting
  • PX4-Autopilot <= 1.17.0

CWE
  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference
CVSS
7.1
CVSS V4 Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Credit
Xiaoyang Chen
Description
PX4 Autopilot through 1.17.0 contains a null pointer dereference vulnerability in param_set_default_file() and param_set_backup_file() functions that allows attackers to crash the autopilot process. Attackers can invoke 'param select' or 'param select-backup' commands with no path argument from any PX4 shell to trigger the crash.

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