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CVE-2026-53985: Ground Station prior to 0.6.0 Unauthenticated DoS via service_control Socket.IO

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 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 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.

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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