CVE-2020-10283
CRITICALMicro Air Vehicle Link - Authentication Bypass via Version Negotiation Downgrade
Title source: llmDescription
The Micro Air Vehicle Link (MAVLink) protocol presents authentication mechanisms on its version 2.0 however according to its documentation, in order to maintain backwards compatibility, GCS and autopilot negotiate the version via the AUTOPILOT_VERSION message. Since this negotiation depends on the answer, an attacker may craft packages in a way that hints the autopilot to adopt version 1.0 of MAVLink for the communication. Given the lack of authentication capabilities in such version of MAVLink (refer to CVE-2020-10282), attackers may use this method to bypass authentication capabilities and interact with the autopilot directly.
References (1)
Core 1
Core References
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/aliasrobotics/RVD/issues/3316
Scores
CVSS v3
9.8
EPSS
0.0147
EPSS Percentile
70.3%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-288
Status
published
Products (1)
dronecode/micro_air_vehicle_link
1.0.0
Published
Aug 20, 2020
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026