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TI-2026-38532 Aliases CVE-2026-53451

Path traversal in sgoudelis ground-station

Priority HIGH 82CWE-22Published · Updated

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

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.01082 65th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed ground-station (sgoudelis): 0.4.13

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

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
sgoudelisground-stationbefore 0.4.130.4.13Patch availableCNA
  • ground-station Vendorsgoudelis Affected before 0.4.13 Fixed in 0.4.13 Patch available CNA

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA ground-station (sgoudelis) Fixed in 0.4.13

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-53451

References

  • 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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