CVE-2026-86096: PX4 PX4-Autopilot

PX4 Autopilot through 1.17.0 Use-After-Free via Temperature Calibration Task Startup

CVSS 6.0 MediumEPSS 0.0033 · 26th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: VulnCheck) at 4 Sept 2026, 22:38 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
PX4	PX4-Autopilot https://github.com/PX4/PX4-Autopilot pkg:github/PX4/PX4-Autopilot	affected 1.17.0 and earlier semver Other versions: unaffected

Identifiers

CVE-2026-86096

CNA

VulnCheck

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-416

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
6.0	Medium	4.0	CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	CNA (VulnCheck)Used for this record
5.9	Medium	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H	CNA (VulnCheck)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0033, the 26th percentile, on 6 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 4 Sept 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

github.com/PX4/PX4-Autopilot/pull/28487 patchissue-tracking
github.com/PX4/PX4-Autopilot/commit/b182e523d154fe029a49b48bb5f9d3d6693bc6bb patch
github.com/PX4/PX4-Autopilot product
github.com/PX4/PX4-Autopilot/blob/v1.17.0/src/modules/temperature_compensation/temperature_calibration/task.cpp technical-description
www.vulncheck.com/advisories/px4-autopilot-through-1.17.0-use-after-free-via-temperature-calibration-task-startup third-party-advisory

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.