CVE-2026-53984
CriticalCVSS 9.1Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk31th percentile - higher than 31% of all known CVEs
Summary
A vulnerability in Ground Station (before 0.6.0) allows unauthenticated attackers to destroy or replace the entire SQLite database by sending a full_restore command to the Socket.IO server on port 7000. Lack of authentication and wildcard CORS policy enable remote exploitation.
Risk Assessment
Attackers can permanently delete all satellite records, hardware configurations, and observation schedules, or inject fabricated data, potentially redirecting the ground station to attacker-controlled servers.
Recommendation
Upgrade Ground Station to version 0.6.0 or later. Enforce authentication for Socket.IO, restrict CORS, and disallow unauthorized database operations.
Other vulnerabilities in Ground Station
See all- CVE-2026-53451Critical
Ground Station before version 0.4.13 contains a vulnerability in the unauthenticated save-waterfall-snapshot Socket.IO command. An attacker can control the snapshotName input, allowing file writes outside the data directory via path traversal. It is possible to write a YAML logging configuration file that, during service restart, executes arbitrary code (RCE) with service privileges.
- CVE-2026-53452Medium
Ground Station prior to version 0.4.13 contains a vulnerability where the unauthenticated configure-sdr Socket.IO command accepts a recordingPath for the sigmf-playback SDR and stores it without validation before opening the path without enforcing containment. An absolute path or parent-directory escape ending in .sigmf-meta is parsed as JSON and returned in reply["data"]["metadata"] by the get-sdr-parameters flow. Exploitation requires the metadata file to be readable JSON and to have a sibling .sigmf-data file, but it can disclose contents outside backend/data/recordings without authentication.
- CVE-2026-53983High
Ground Station prior to 0.6.0 contains an unauthenticated blind server-side request forgery vulnerability in the orbital-source configuration path. An unauthenticated Socket.IO client can connect on port 7000, persist an attacker-supplied URL in the database, and trigger an orbital sync, causing outbound HTTP requests to attacker-chosen destinations, including cloud metadata (169.254.169.254). HTTP status codes and error messages are emitted to clients, providing an oracle for interpreting internal-service responses.
- CVE-2026-53985High
Ground Station prior to 0.6.0 contains an unauthenticated denial-of-service vulnerability in the Socket.IO server's service_control event handler that allows any unauthenticated network peer to forcibly terminate the ground-station process by sending a single restart_service command. Attackers can connect to the Socket.IO server on port 7000 without credentials due to disabled authentication enforcement and a wildcard CORS policy, then emit the service_control event to terminate all active satellite-tracking sessions, SDR recording pipelines, demodulators, decoders, and rotator controllers, with repeated triggering possible in Docker deployments to create a persistent denial-of-service condition.
Original NVD description (English source)
Ground Station prior to 0.6.0 contains an unauthenticated database-destruction and arbitrary-data-injection vulnerability in the Socket.IO server's database_backup event handler that allows any unauthenticated network peer to wipe or replace the entire SQLite database by sending a single full_restore command with a caller-supplied SQL blob. Attackers can connect to the Socket.IO server on port 7000 without credentials due to disabled authentication enforcement and a wildcard CORS policy, then emit the database_backup event to drop every existing table and recreate the database from attacker-controlled CREATE TABLE and INSERT INTO statements executed via raw exec_driver_sql, permanently destroying all satellite records, orbital sources, hardware configurations, and observation schedules, or planting fabricated orbital-source URLs and observation entries that redirect the ground station to attacker-controlled servers on the next scheduled sync.