CVE-2026-102809

Medium

Description

PX4 Autopilot through 1.17.0 contains an uncontrolled stack allocation vulnerability in the file2 test command that fails to validate the write chunk size parameter. Attackers with shell access can supply an excessively large value to the -c option to trigger stack overflow and crash the flight controller.

SeverityMedium
CVSS6.5
Exploit probability—
ProductPX4-Autopilot
PublishedSep 29, 2026
First seenSep 29, 2026
Weakness typeCWE-789CWE-789

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
PX4 PX4-Autopilotv ≤ 1.17.0—

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