NASA Core Flight System (cFS) Health & Safety (HS) Application

July 30, 2026·Source: CISA

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TL;DR

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition. The following versions of NASA Core Flight System (cFS) Health & Safety (HS) Application are affected: Core Flight System (cFS) Health & Safety (HS) Application <=v7.0.1 (CVE-2026-18064) CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilities

v3 7.5 NASA NASA Core Flight System (cFS) Health & Safety (HS) Application NULL Pointer Dereference

Background Critical Infrastructure Sectors: Transportation Systems Countries/Areas Deployed: Worldwide Company Headquarters Location: United States Vulnerabilities Expand All + CVE-2026-18064 An incomplete fix for CVE-2026-15352 in the NASA core Flight System (cFS) Health and Safety (HS) application leaves a separate NULL pointer dereference reachable in versions through 7.0.1. An attacker who can trigger the affected command under specific conditions could cause the HS application to crash, resulting in a denial-of-service condition and processor reset. View CVE Details Affected Products NASA Core Flight System (cFS) Health & Safety (HS) Application Vendor: NASA Product Version: NASA Core Flight System (cFS) Health & Safety (HS) Application: <=v7.0.1 Product Status: known_affected Remediations Mitigation NASA reports that an official fix is currently under development and is expected to be included in a future software release. Mitigation As an interim mitigation, users can update their HS app from the HS repo (https://github.com/nasa/HS) to the latest dev branch. The fix is in the dev branch starting at commit 828855f971db4b6714367ed0a970f52dbeab2965 https://github.com/nasa/HS Relevant CWE: CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference Metrics CVSS Version Base Score Base Severity Vector String

3.1 7.5 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

4.0 8.2 HIGH CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Acknowledgments Michael Holmquist of Hasp Labs reported this vulnerability to CISA Le

What Happened

NASA Core Flight System (cFS) Health & Safety (HS) Application, reported by CISA.

v3 7.5 NASA NASA Core Flight System (cFS) Health & Safety (HS) Application NULL Pointer Dereference

3.1 7.5 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

4.0 8.2 HIGH CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Acknowledgments Michael Holmquist of Hasp Labs reported this vulnerability to CISA Le

For the full technical details, see the original report.

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