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CVE-2026-53984: Ground Station prior to 0.6.0 Unauthenticated Database Wipe and Arbitrary Data Injection via Socket.IO database_backup full_restore Action

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-08-06 · updated 2026-10-24
• Weakness: CWE-306

Description

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.

Affected products

• Efstratios Goudelis Ground Station: before 0.6.0 — fixed in 0.6.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Efstratios Goudelis Ground Station 0.6.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/sgoudelis/ground-station
• https://github.com/sgoudelis/ground-station/commit/2ecde82a8814cbea18883ce023bf45cbf06172eb
• https://github.com/sgoudelis/ground-station/security/advisories/GHSA-mjp8-x6h7-229q

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