CVE-2025-9020
PX4 PX4-Autopilot Mavlink Shell Closing mavlink_receiver.cpp handle_message_serial_control use after free
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Description
A vulnerability was found in PX4 PX4-Autopilot up to 1.15.4. This issue affects the function MavlinkReceiver::handle_message_serial_control of the file src/modules/mavlink/mavlink_receiver.cpp of the component Mavlink Shell Closing Handler. The manipulation of the argument _mavlink_shell leads to use after free. An attack has to be approached locally. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The identifier of the patch is 4395d4f00c49b888f030f5b43e2a779f1fa78708. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| VulDBCNA (assigner) | 4.0 | Low2.0 | CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X |
| VulDBCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium4.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:X/RL:O/RC:C |
| VulDBCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Medium4.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:X/RL:O/RC:C |
| VulDBCNA (assigner) | 2.0 | Low3.5 | AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P/E:ND/RL:OF/RC:C |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 4.0 | Low2.0 | CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.17% · top 93% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 2.0.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected 1.15.0
- affected 1.15.1
- affected 1.15.2
- affected 1.15.3
- affected 1.15.4
References (6)
- VDB-320081 | PX4 PX4-Autopilot Mavlink Shell Closing mavlink_receiver.cpp handle_message_serial_control use after free (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrytechnical-description
- VDB-320081 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, IOA) (opens in a new tab)signaturepermissions-required
- Submit #624722 | PX4 PX4-Autopilot main and v1.15.4 Race Condition in File Access (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisory
- https://github.com/PX4/PX4-Autopilot/issues/25046 (opens in a new tab)issue-tracking
- https://github.com/PX4/PX4-Autopilot/pull/25082 (opens in a new tab)issue-tracking
- https://github.com/PX4/PX4-Autopilot/pull/25082/commits/4395d4f00c49b888f030f5b43e2a779f1fa78708 (opens in a new tab)issue-trackingpatch
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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