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They might be able to, but, if they are effectively saying "our product is broken and you can't use it until you do X" they could be responsible for massive contractual liabilities.

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Based on what legal reasoning…?

I haven’t heard of any similar successful court cases in recent years in the US.

Based on aviation law they can notify the certification authority of a mandatory fix which will be then required to be applied for users to aircraft operators to apply. If necessary with 0 deadline, i.e. "if the plane is on the ground it's not flying till the following change is applied"

Can you cite which parts of “aviation law” could have a decent chance of leading to the aformentioned outcome?

General worldwide: Chicago Convention aka ICAO convention (currently under auspices of UN), Annex 8 [2] and Annex 6 [3].

For USA [4], Title 14 of Code of Federal Regulations, Chapter I Subchapter C, Part 39

For EU [5] Article 76 (6) of the Basic Regulation (EU) 2018/1139

[1] https://www.icao.int/publications/pages/doc7300.aspx [2] https://ffac.ch/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/ICAO-Annex-8-Airw... [3] https://ffac.ch/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/ICAO-Annex-6-Oper... [4] https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-C... [5] https://www.easa.europa.eu/en/document-library/regulations#b...

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