CVE-2026-53984

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Description

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.

Severity

HIGH

CVSS score

8.8 (v4.0)

Vulnerability status

Deferred

Source identifier

[email protected]

Published

2026-08-06 22:17:42.280000

Last modified

2026-10-24 16:10:00.153000

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  "sourceIdentifier": "[email protected]",
  "published": "2026-08-06T22:17:42.280",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-24T16:10:00.153",
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      "value": "Estación Terrena anterior a 0.6.0 contiene una vulnerabilidad de destrucción de base de datos no autenticada y de inyección de datos arbitrarios en el gestor de eventos database_backup del servidor Socket.IO que permite a cualquier par de red no autenticado borrar o reemplazar la base de datos SQLite completa enviando un único comando full_restore con un blob SQL proporcionado por el llamante. Los atacantes pueden conectarse al servidor Socket.IO en el puerto 7000 sin credenciales debido a la aplicación de autenticación deshabilitada y a una política CORS de comodín, luego emitir el evento database_backup para eliminar cada tabla existente y recrear la base de datos a partir de sentencias CREATE TABLE e INSERT INTO controladas por el atacante ejecutadas a través de exec_driver_sql en bruto, destruyendo permanentemente todos los registros de satélites, fuentes orbitales, configuraciones de hardware y programas de observación, o insertando URLs de fuentes orbitales fabricadas y entradas de observación que redirigen la estación terrena a servidores controlados por el atacante en la próxima sincronización programada."
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