PatchTheCEVCVE-2026-60112: AMMOS Instrument Toolkit (AIT) GUI before 2.5.1 contains a missing authentication vulnerability that allows an
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CRITICAL 9.8REMOTEUPGRADE
CVE-2026-60112 is a critical-severity flaw (CVSS 9.8) affecting ait gui. Below: why it ranks where it does, which versions are affected, what to do, and the exact commands.
AMMOS Instrument Toolkit (AIT) GUI before 2.5.1 contains a missing authentication vulnerability that allows any unauthenticated network attacker to obtain a valid session and issue arbitrary spacecraft commands by calling Sessions.create() without any credential check. Attackers can exploit the unauthenticated session issuance in Sessions.create() and subsequently invoke handle_cmd() to forward arbitrary commands directly to the AIT command bus w
Why this priority
- Critical severity
- CISA SSVC: automatable with total technical impact
- Remotely exploitable, no login, no user action
A fixed release or distro patch exists.
Risk facts
| CVSS score | 9.8 (Critical) |
| Attack vector | Network (remote) |
| Attack complexity | Low |
| Privileges needed | None |
| User interaction | None |
| EPSS exploit chance | 0.8% (top 44%) |
| CISA exploited list | No |
| Weakness | CWE-306 |
| Published | 2026-07-29 |
| Last modified | 2026-10-23 |
Am I affected?
Timeline
- Published CVE record published
- Updated Record last modified
nasa ait gui UPGRADE
Affected: < 2.5.1
Fixed in: 2.5.1
Safe to downgrade to: no unaffected older release
1. Check installed version
apt-cache policy ait-gui || rpm -q ait-gui || ait-gui --version
2. UPGRADE to 2.5.1 (Debian / Ubuntu)
sudo apt update && sudo apt install --only-upgrade ait-gui
2. UPGRADE (RHEL / Amazon Linux / Fedora)
sudo dnf upgrade ait-gui
Note
Distros often backport fixes without changing the version number. Confirm with the distro advisory or changelog.
Exact fixes by distribution
Fedora 46 · python-openslide · FIXED · 1.4.7-1.fc46 · FEDORA-2026-336bea884e · source
sudo dnf upgrade --advisory=FEDORA-2026-336bea884e
Fedora ELN · valgrind · FIXED · 3.28.0-1.eln159 · FEDORA-2026-c593ef1d15 · source
sudo dnf upgrade --advisory=FEDORA-2026-c593ef1d15
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