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CVE-2025-9020 Detail

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.


Metrics

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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
NIST: NVD
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CNA:  VulDB
CVSS-B 2.0 LOW
Vector:  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

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
https://github.com/PX4/PX4-Autopilot/issues/25046 VulDB
https://github.com/PX4/PX4-Autopilot/pull/25082 VulDB
https://github.com/PX4/PX4-Autopilot/pull/25082/commits/4395d4f00c49b888f030f5b43e2a779f1fa78708 VulDB
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.320081 VulDB
https://vuldb.com/?id.320081 VulDB
https://vuldb.com/?submit.624722 VulDB

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-416 Use After Free VulDB  
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer VulDB  

Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2025-9020
NVD Published Date:
08/15/2025
NVD Last Modified:
08/15/2025
Source:
VulDB