🛡️ CVE-2026-53985

🟠 CVSS 7.5 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-306 NVD
7.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

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.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-53985 is classified as CWE-306: Missing Authentication for Critical Function. A sensitive function can be reached without authenticating at all.

Affected software

CVE-2026-53985 is recorded against 1 package.

  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 6 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-306
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-08-06
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-08-06
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
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