Flight-control interruption via unchecked CRSF packet length
Published Nov 13, 2023 · Updated Sep 3, 2024
Buffer overflow in the CRSF parser in PX4 Autopilot before 1.14.0 allows attackers to interrupt flight control via a crafted RC packet. For an unknown packet type with length 62, CrsfParser_TryParseCrsfPacket omits header and CRC bytes from its bounds calculation, then copies 67 bytes into the 64-byte process_buffer. The CRSF driver must be enabled and receive the packet; the demonstrated result is memory corruption and a PX4 process abort in SITL.
Summary
What happened
Buffer overflow in the CRSF parser in PX4 Autopilot before 1.14.0 allows attackers to interrupt flight control via a crafted RC packet. For an unknown packet type with length 62, CrsfParser_TryParseCrsfPacket omits header and CRC bytes from its bounds calculation, then copies 67 bytes into the 64-byte process_buffer. The CRSF driver must be enabled and receive the packet; the demonstrated result is memory corruption and a PX4 process abort in SITL.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2023-47625
- Published
- Nov 13, 2023
- Updated
- Sep 3, 2024
- Vendor
- PX4
- Product
- PX4 Autopilot
- Classifications
- CWE-120, T0814
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Nov 13, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Sep 3, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <1.14.0
- Affected versionversion=< 1.14.0
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Public exploit references
- GHSA-qpw7-65ww-wj82 CRSF parser reproductionproof of concept · demonstrated
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