---
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: 0.00726
epssPercentile: 0.52159
ingestedAt: '2026-09-23T17:28:14.797Z'
---

## Overview

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 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.

## Remediation

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