CVE-2026-86097: PX4 PX4-Autopilot

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

PX4 Autopilot through 1.17.0 contains a null pointer dereference vulnerability in param_set_default_file() and param_set_backup_file() functions that allows attackers to crash the autopilot process. Attackers can invoke 'param select' or 'param select-backup' commands with no path argument from any PX4 shell to trigger the crash.

Affected products

• PX4 PX4-Autopilot: up to and including 1.17.0

Published 2026-09-04. Last modified 2026-09-10.