NASA cFS Aquila OSAL path traversal

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A vulnerability categorized as critical has been discovered in NASA cFS Aquila. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component OSAL Module. Such manipulation leads to path traversal. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2025-25371. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in NASA cFS Aquila and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality of the component OSAL Module. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

NASA cFS (Core Flight System) Aquila is vulnerable to path traversal in the OSAL module, allowing the override of any arbitrary file on the system.

The advisory is shared for download at visionspace.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-25371 since 02/07/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1006.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• NASA

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• cFS

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• Aquila

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