Vulnerability in NASA cFS (CVE-2026-5473)
Summary
Vulnerability in NASA cFS (CVE-2026-5473). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
A vulnerability has been found in NASA cFS up to 7.0.0. The impacted element is the function pickle.load of the component Pickle Module. Such manipulation leads to deserialization. The attack needs to be performed locally. The attack requires a high level of complexity. The exploitability is regarded as difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The project was informed of the problem early through an issue report but has not responded yet.
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-5473 has been found in NASA cFS.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 4.5/10.
What to do: apply the vendor's official patched release.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "NASA cFS CVE-2026-5473" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2026-5473 (NASA cFS) — CWE-20 / CVSS v3 4.5
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-20) exists in NASA cFS.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of NASA cFS.
Severity: Medium (CVSS 4.5/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to the patched release per vendor advisory.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Audit SBOM/dependencies to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
Audit SBOM/dependencies for affected components.資産台帳・SBOM・依存マニフェストで NASA cFS を使っているサービスとバージョンを洗い出す。
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2Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
References
- advisory cna@vuldb.com
- advisory cna@vuldb.com
- issue cna@vuldb.com
- web cna@vuldb.com
- web cna@vuldb.com