🛡️ CVE-2025-71409

🟠 CVSS 7.1 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-306 NVD
7.1
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Lack of authentication for Very High Frequency Data Link messages allows rogue ground stations to inject CPDLC messages leading to unexpected or misleading clearances and potential pilot confusion. This type of attack can be carried out remotely over radio frequency.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity high, availability low.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-71409 is classified as CWE-306: Missing Authentication for Critical Function. A sensitive function can be reached without authenticating at all.

Affected software

CVE-2025-71409 is recorded against 1 package.

  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 7 August 2026 and last revised on 10 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

www.cisa.gov

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.1
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:L
CWE CWE-306
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-08-07
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-08-10
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
unknown — —

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