Is CVE-2026-86097 being exploited?

No public exploit is currently tracked.

How severe is CVE-2026-86097?

CVE-2026-86097 has a CVSS v3 severity of MEDIUM (6.5).

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CVE-2026-86097

Description

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.