Path traversal in sgoudelis ground-station
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Code execution
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-94.
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 save-waterfall-snapshot Socket.IO command passes attacker-controlled snapshotName input from backend/handlers/entities/sdr.py to backend/server/snapshots.py, where os.path.join permits an absolute path or parent-directory traversal and writes attacker-controlled base64-decoded bytes outside backend/data/snapshots. An attacker can write a logging YAML file containing a logging.config.dictConfig callable factory, use the unauthenticated update-app-config operation to set log_config to that file, and invoke restart_service. During restart, backend/common/logger.py passes the YAML through resolve_log_config_path(), yaml.safe_load(), and logging.config.dictConfig(), which executes the factory with service privileges and can also cause a persistent crash loop. This issue is fixed in version 0.4.13.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA ground-station (sgoudelis) Fixed in 0.4.13
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-53451
References
More sgoudelis vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-65619 ground-station before 0.8.0 Authentication Bypass via setup.restore CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
- TI-2026-85947 Credential disclosure in Ground Station via get-orbital-sources CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.1
- TI-2026-38533 Ground Station: Unauthenticated out-of-containment file read via `sigmfplayback` `recordingPath` CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3
Sources
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