CVE-2026-86096 PUBLISHED

PX4 Autopilot through 1.17.0 Use-After-Free via Temperature Calibration Task Startup

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 04.09.2026 Published: 04.09.2026 Updated: 04.09.2026

PX4 Autopilot through 1.17.0 contains a use-after-free vulnerability in TemperatureCalibration::start() due to a race condition between task spawning and object deletion. Attackers can trigger the calibration process via shell commands to write to freed heap memory, corrupting unrelated objects or allocator metadata and destabilizing heap operations.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 6

Product Status

Vendor PX4
Product PX4-Autopilot
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 1.17.0 (incl.)

Credits

  • Xiaoyang Chen finder

References

Problem Types

  • Use After Free CWE