PX4 Military UAV Autopilot DoS Vulnerability: Crash Landing Your Drones with Style!
A vulnerability in PX4 Military UAV Autopilot allows attackers to send a crafted MAVLink message, triggering a buffer overflow and causing a Denial of Service (DoS). This amusingly named “attack of the drones” could crash the autopilot, potentially grounding military operations. Who knew UAVs could be taken down by a simple bit of code?
Hot Take:
Ah, the joys of modern warfare where even drones aren’t safe from digital shenanigans! Who knew that a few lines of code could make a military UAV have a full-blown existential crisis? Cybersecurity: keeping us on our toes and our drones in therapy since forever!
Key Points:
– A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability found in PX4 Military UAV Autopilot software version 1.12.3.
– Exploit involves sending a malformed MAVLink message to crash the autopilot system.
– The vulnerability is classified as CVE-2025-5640.
– The exploit is proof-of-concept and crashes the drone via UDP.
– Tested on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with PX4 SITL using jMAVSim.