---
id: CVE-2026-53452
title: >-
  Ground Station is a browser-based suite for satellite tracking, SDR reception,
  hardware control, and telemetry decoding
summary: >-
  Ground Station is a browser-based suite for satellite tracking, SDR reception,
  hardware control, and telemetry decoding. Prior to version 0.4.13, the
  unauthenticated configure-sdr Socket.IO command accepts a recordingPath for
  the sigmf-p…
severity: medium
cvss: 5.3
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N'
cwe:
  - CWE-22
  - CWE-200
published: '2026-08-19'
updated: '2026-09-18'
sourceUpdated: '2026-09-18T20:09:01.757'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-53452'
references:
  - url: >-
      https://github.com/sgoudelis/ground-station/commit/5649905f1021155933463a54a76030924adffb9d
    label: security-advisories@github.com
  - url: 'https://github.com/sgoudelis/ground-station/releases/tag/v0.4.13'
    label: security-advisories@github.com
  - url: >-
      https://github.com/sgoudelis/ground-station/security/advisories/GHSA-g344-jqcx-cr7q
    label: security-advisories@github.com
  - url: >-
      https://github.com/sgoudelis/ground-station/security/advisories/GHSA-g344-jqcx-cr7q
    label: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
tags:
  - nvd
epss: 0.00505
epssPercentile: 0.4049
ingestedAt: '2026-09-18T20:51:25.638Z'
---

## Overview

Ground Station is a browser-based suite for satellite tracking, SDR reception, hardware control, and telemetry decoding. Prior to version 0.4.13, the unauthenticated configure-sdr Socket.IO command accepts a recordingPath for the sigmf-playback SDR and backend/handlers/entities/sdr.py stores it without validation before backend/hardware/sigmfprobe.py opens the path without enforcing containment. An absolute path or parent-directory escape ending in .sigmf-meta is parsed as JSON and returned in reply["data"]["metadata"] by the get-sdr-parameters flow. Exploitation requires the metadata file to be readable JSON and to have a sibling .sigmf-data file, but it can disclose contents outside backend/data/recordings without authentication. This issue is fixed in version 0.4.13.

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.