CVE-2024-24255 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

A Race Condition discovered in geofence.cpp and mission_feasibility_checker.cpp in PX4 Autopilot 1.14 and earlier allows attackers to send drones on unintended missions.

Published: 2024-02-06

Score: 4.2 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:dronecode:px4_drone_autopilot:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2024-21679	A Race Condition discovered in geofence.cpp and mission_feasibility_checker.cpp in PX4 Autopilot 1.14 and earlier allows attackers to send drones on unintended missions.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00041.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/Drone-Lab/PX4-Autopilot/blob/report-the-faliure-of-precheck/report-the-faliure-of-precheck.md

History

Thu, 08 May 2025 19:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Dronecode Px4 Drone Autopilot

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2024-02-06T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-05-08T19:03:43.216Z

Reserved: 2024-01-25T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2024-24255

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T23:19:52.016Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-02-06T23:15:08.897

Modified: 2025-05-08T19:15:59.257

Link: CVE-2024-24255

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-362

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