{"id":"CVE-2026-53984","title":"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 rep…","summary":"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 rep…","severity":"critical","cvss":9.1,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H","cwe":["CWE-306"],"published":"2026-08-06","updated":"2026-09-23","sourceUpdated":"2026-09-23T17:17:41.633","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-53984","references":[{"url":"https://github.com/sgoudelis/ground-station","label":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/sgoudelis/ground-station/commit/2ecde82a8814cbea18883ce023bf45cbf06172eb","label":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/sgoudelis/ground-station/security/advisories/GHSA-mjp8-x6h7-229q","label":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"}],"tags":["nvd"],"epss":0.00381,"epssPercentile":0.31979,"ingestedAt":"2026-09-23T17:28:14.797Z","slug":"CVE-2026-53984","body":"## Overview\n\nGround 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.\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.","depth":"midnight","depthScore":50,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":50.1,"likelihood":0.1,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}