CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-18064

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.34%

27th percentile - higher than 27% of all known CVEs

Summary

An incomplete fix for CVE-2026-15352 in the NASA core Flight System (cFS) Health and Safety (HS) application leaves a separate NULL pointer dereference reachable in versions through 7.0.1. An attacker who can trigger the affected command under specific conditions could cause the HS application to crash, resulting in a denial-of-service condition and processor reset.

Risk Assessment

The risk involves potential system crashes and processor resets, which could disrupt mission operations or critical systems relying on cFS.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the cFS to a version containing the complete fix for this vulnerability, after thorough testing in the target environment.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

An incomplete fix for CVE-2026-15352 in the NASA core Flight System (cFS) Health and Safety (HS) application leaves a separate NULL pointer dereference reachable in versions through 7.0.1. An attacker who can trigger the affected command under specific conditions could cause the HS application to crash, resulting in a denial-of-service condition and processor reset.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS