What is CVE-2026-72577?

CVE-2026-72577 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Nasa Fprime-Gds, classified under Missing Authentication for Critical Function. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2026-08-10.

How severe is CVE-2026-72577?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Auth bypass in Nasa Fprime-Gds

CVE-2026-72577

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.

Vulnerability class: Broken Authentication

Published 2026-08-10 · last modified 2026-08-28.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.009 (56.9th percentile), scored 2026-09-24.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 57th percentile — 56.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.009 · newest: 0.009 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Nasa Fprime-Gds — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-306 — Missing Authentication for Critical Function

References

309f9ea4-e3e9-4c6c-b79d-e8eb01244f2c (third-party-advisory)
309f9ea4-e3e9-4c6c-b79d-e8eb01244f2c (third-party-advisory)
309f9ea4-e3e9-4c6c-b79d-e8eb01244f2c (technical-description)
309f9ea4-e3e9-4c6c-b79d-e8eb01244f2c (technical-description)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-72577?: CVE-2026-72577 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Nasa Fprime-Gds, classified under Missing Authentication for Critical Function. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2026-08-10.
How severe is CVE-2026-72577?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.