Dossier
JPL
Coverage of JPL in the Nexus archive.
- NASA AIT-GUI Flaws Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Issue Spacecraft Commands
Security researchers at Cycode disclosed a chain of flaws in AIT-GUI, the operator console for NASA/JPL's open-source AMMOS Instrument Toolkit. These flaws allow an unauthenticated attacker to issue arbitrary commands to the software’s spacecraft and instrument command bus. The vulnerability was tracked as GHSA-p9r8-2q67-fp86 and rated 9.4 on CVSS v3.1.
- Caltech Welcomes Ray Jayawardhana as Tenth President
Caltech welcomed Ray Jayawardhana as its tenth president on July 1, 2026. He also holds the Sonja and William Davidow Presidential Chair and is a professor of astronomy at the Institute.