# CVE-2026-72577: NASA fprime-gds - Missing Authentication and Path Traversal Enable Unauthenticated RCE and Spacecraft Command Injection

- Severity: CVSS 9.8 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-08-10 · Updated: 2026-08-10

## Affected

- NASA fprime-gds: through 3.4.3

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on NASA fprime-gds, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/nasa/fprime-gds
- https://pypi.org/project/fprime-gds/
- https://github.com/nasa/fprime-gds/blob/main/src/fprime_gds/flask/updown.py
- https://github.com/nasa/fprime-gds/blob/main/src/fprime_gds/flask/commands.py

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