CVE-2024-24254 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

PX4 Autopilot 1.14 and earlier, due to the lack of synchronization mechanism for loading geofence data, has a Race Condition vulnerability in the geofence.cpp and mission_feasibility_checker.cpp. This will result in the drone uploading overlapping geofences and mission routes.

Published: 2024-02-06

Score: 4.2 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:dronecode:px4_drone_autopilot:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2024-21678	PX4 Autopilot 1.14 and earlier, due to the lack of synchronization mechanism for loading geofence data, has a Race Condition vulnerability in the geofence.cpp and mission_feasibility_checker.cpp. This will result in the drone uploading overlapping geofences and mission routes.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00037.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/Drone-Lab/PX4-Autopilot/blob/report-can-not-pause-vulnerability/Multi-Threaded%20Race%20Condition%20bug%20found%20in%20PX4%20cause%20drone%20can%20not%20PAUSE.md
https://github.com/PX4/PX4-Autopilot

History

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 19:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Dronecode Px4 Drone Autopilot

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2024-02-06T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-06-05T18:23:34.608Z

Reserved: 2024-01-25T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2024-24254

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T23:19:51.998Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-02-06T22:16:15.010

Modified: 2025-06-05T19:15:27.000

Link: CVE-2024-24254

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-362

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