NASA Core Flight System (cFS) Health & Safety (HS) Application NULL Pointer Dereference
Priority MEDIUM 43CWE-476Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- Present
- Impact type
- Denial of service
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-476.
Summary
A vulnerability exists in the Health & Safety (HS) application of NASA's Core Flight System (cFS). The flaw allows the application to crash via segmentation fault when processing a routine Housekeeping Telemetry request, leading to denial of service.
Why it matters now
Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00609 49th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed Core Flight System (cFS) Health & Safety (HS) Application (NASA): v7.0.1
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Core Flight System (cFS) Health & Safety (HS) Application (NASA) Fixed in v7.0.1
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-15352
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-8472-2q4c-5q85
References
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- TI-2025-21552 CryptoLib Has Heap Overflow in Crypto_TM_ProcessSecurity due to Unchecked Secondary Header Length CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.4
- TI-2025-18986 The Memory Management Module of NASA cFS (Core Flight System) Aquila has insecure… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2024-36754 A command injection vulnerability in the Command Dispatcher Service of NASA Fprime v3.4.3… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2024-36752 A template injection vulnerability in the Dashboard of NASA Fprime v3.4.3 allows… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2026-42833 AIT-DSN < 2.2.2 Missing Authentication via SLE API Routes CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
- TI-2025-21662 Heap Buffer Overflow via Incomplete Length Check in `Crypto_TC_ApplySecurity` CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
Sources
- CVE-2026-15352 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-15352 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-8472-2q4c-5q85 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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