CVE-2026-86096mediumCWE-416

CVE-2026-86096: medium-severity vulnerability in PX4-Autopilot

PX4 Autopilot through 1.17.0 Use-After-Free via Temperature Calibration Task Startup

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13Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 6epss 0.3%
PX4 Autopilot through 1.17.0 contains a use-after-free vulnerability in TemperatureCalibration::start() due to a race condition between task spawning and object deletion. Attackers can trigger the calibration process via shell commands to write to freed heap memory, corrupting unrelated objects or allocator metadata and destabilizing heap operations.
CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
PX4 · PX4-Autopilot
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