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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-86097 EUVD-2026-71790GHSA-43c5-wgwh-x5c8

PX4 Autopilot through 1.17.0 Null Pointer Dereference via param select

Published Sep 4, 2026 · Updated Sep 8, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck

Description

PX4 Autopilot through 1.17.0 contains a null pointer dereference vulnerability in param_set_default_file() and param_set_backup_file() functions that allows attackers to crash the autopilot process. Attackers can invoke 'param select' or 'param select-backup' commands with no path argument from any PX4 shell to trigger the crash.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
PX4 PX4-Autopilot ≤ 1.17.0 —

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