CVE-2026-53984

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Ground Station versions prior to 0.6.0

Description An unauthenticated database-destruction and arbitrary-data-injection issue exists in the Socket.IO server's database backup event handler. Due to disabled authentication enforcement and a wildcard CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) policy, unauthenticated network peers can connect to the server on port 7000. By emitting the database backup event with a full restore command containing a caller-supplied SQL blob, an attacker can execute raw exec driver sql commands. This allows for the deletion of all existing tables and the recreation of the SQLite database using attacker-controlled CREATE TABLE and INSERT INTO statements. This can result in the permanent loss of satellite records, orbital sources, hardware configurations, and observation schedules, or the injection of fabricated orbital-source URLs and observation entries that redirect the system to malicious servers during the next scheduled synchronization.

Recommendations Update Ground Station to version 0.6.0 or later.