CVE-2026-53985 PUBLISHED

Ground Station prior to 0.6.0 Unauthenticated DoS via service_control Socket.IO

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 11.06.2026 Published: 06.08.2026 Updated: 06.08.2026

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 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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 8.7

Product Status

Vendor Efstratios Goudelis
Product Ground Station
Versions Default: affected
  • affected from 0 to 0.6.0 (excl.)

Credits

  • Katriel Moses reporter

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-306 Missing Authentication for Critical Function CWE