Description
AMMOS Instrument Toolkit (AIT) GUI before 2.5.1 contains a missing authentication vulnerability that allows any unauthenticated network attacker to obtain a valid session and issue arbitrary spacecraft commands by calling Sessions.create() without any credential check. Attackers can exploit the unauthenticated session issuance in Sessions.create() and subsequently invoke handle_cmd() to forward arbitrary commands directly to the AIT command bus without any authentication gate between session creation and command dispatch.
Affected products
nasa: ait gui
References4
- github.com/NASA-AMMOS/AIT-GUI/commit/beb8fc0813eded89f985d3eb9a… Patch
- www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ait-gui-missing-authentication-via… PatchRelease NotesThird Party Advisory
- github.com/NASA-AMMOS/AIT-GUI/blob/2.5.1/CHANGELOG.md Release Notes
- github.com/NASA-AMMOS/AIT-GUI/releases/tag/2.5.1 ProductRelease Notes
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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9.8
CRITICAL
Score source: CNA
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - CVSS 4.0
-
9.3
CRITICAL
Score source: CNA
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X - EPSS — exploit probability
- 1% percentile: 57 · as of 13 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-306
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