{"id":"CVE-2026-53985","title":"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 proce…","summary":"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 proce…","severity":"high","cvss":7.5,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","cwe":["CWE-306"],"published":"2026-08-06","updated":"2026-09-23","sourceUpdated":"2026-09-23T17:17:40.243","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-53985","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":0.00707,"epssPercentile":0.51356,"ingestedAt":"2026-09-23T17:28:14.796Z","slug":"CVE-2026-53985","body":"## Overview\n\nGround 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.\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.","depth":"twilight","depthScore":41,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":41.3,"likelihood":0.1,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}