NASA JPL ION-DTN up to 4.2.0 Asynchronous Message Service out-of-bounds write

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A vulnerability has been found in NASA JPL ION-DTN up to 4.2.0 and classified as very critical. This impacts an unknown function of the component Asynchronous Message Service. Performing a manipulation results in out-of-bounds write. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-124000. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability classified as very critical has been found in NASA JPL ION-DTN up to 4.2.0. This affects an unknown part of the component Asynchronous Message Service. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a out-of-bounds write vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-787. The product writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

NASA JPL ION-DTN 2.1.0 through 4.2.0 contains a heap buffer under-allocation vulnerability in the Asynchronous Message Service daemon (amsd) that allows a rogue or misconfigured peer to trigger an out-of-bounds write by sending crafted Meta-AMS (MAMS) configuration management messages that are processed without cryptographic authentication. Attackers can exploit the insufficient buffer size calculation for the internal state-event object to crash the active Configuration Server thread, causing a denial of service and potentially destabilizing subsequent shared-memory allocations in amsd.

The advisory is shared at github.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-124000 since 11/06/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 11/09/2026).

Upgrading to version 4.2.1-a.2 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• NASA JPL

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• ION-DTN

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• 4.0
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• 4.2.0

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