Ground Station: Unauthenticated out-of-containment file read via `sigmfplayback` `recordingPath`
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Information disclosure
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · None · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-200.
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 configure-sdr Socket.IO command accepts a recordingPath for the sigmf-playback SDR and backend/handlers/entities/sdr.py stores it without validation before backend/hardware/sigmfprobe.py opens the path without enforcing containment. An absolute path or parent-directory escape ending in .sigmf-meta is parsed as JSON and returned in reply["data"]["metadata"] by the get-sdr-parameters flow. Exploitation requires the metadata file to be readable JSON and to have a sibling .sigmf-data file, but it can disclose contents outside backend/data/recordings without authentication. 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
- Partial
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-2026-53452
References
More sgoudelis vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-38532 Path traversal in sgoudelis ground-station CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- 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
Sources
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