🛡️ CVE-2026-38971 — arduplane

🔴 CVSS 9.1 — Critical ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-125 NVD
9.1
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

ardupilot through Plane-4.6.3 was found to contain an out-of-bounds read issue in libraries/GCS_MAVLink/GCS_serial_control.cpp in GCS_MAVLINK::handle_serial_control().

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-38971 is classified as CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read. The code reads past the limits of a buffer, exposing adjacent memory contents or crashing the process.

Affected software

CVE-2026-38971 is recorded against 1 package.

  • arduplane (fixed in 4.6.3)

Timeline and source

Published on 2 July 2026 and last revised on 9 July 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.1
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-125
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2026-07-02
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-07-09

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
arduplane — 4.6.3

Exploit Protection

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