Critical severity · published Aug 10, 2026
CVE-2026-72577
NASA fprime-gds - Missing Authentication and Path Traversal Enable Unauthenticated RCE and Spacecraft Command Injection
9.8
CVSS
1.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.3% · higher than 70% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FP
fprime-gds · NASA
through 3.4.3 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-72577
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72577
github.com
https://github.com/nasa/fprime-gds
github.com
https://github.com/nasa/fprime-gds/blob/main/src/fprime_gds/flask/commands.py
github.com
https://github.com/nasa/fprime-gds/blob/main/src/fprime_gds/flask/updown.py
pypi.org
https://pypi.org/project/fprime-gds/