CVE-2025-25372
Published: 25 March 2025
Description
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities that can cause an application or system to crash and deny availability to users.
Security Summary
CVE-2025-25372 is a vulnerability in NASA's Core Flight System (cFS) Aquila version that leads to a segmentation fault. It affects the Memory Management Module, which can be triggered by sending a malicious telecommand. The issue is categorized under CWE-787 (Out-of-bounds Write) and carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.5 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H), highlighting its potential for high availability impact.
A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability over the network with low complexity and no user interaction required. By crafting and sending a malicious telecommand to the Memory Management Module, the attacker can induce a segmentation fault, causing the affected cFS Aquila instance to crash and resulting in a denial-of-service condition.
Mitigation details and further assessment are available in the advisory published by VisionSpace at https://visionspace.com/nasa-cfs-version-aquila-software-vulnerability-assessment/. The CVE was published on 2025-03-25.
Details
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Affected Products
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques
Why these techniques?
The vulnerability enables remote exploitation of the Memory Management Module via a crafted telecommand, triggering an out-of-bounds write that causes a segmentation fault and system crash, directly facilitating Endpoint Denial of Service through application exploitation.