Missing authentication in Efstratios Goudelis Ground Station
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-306.
Summary
Ground Station prior to 0.6.0 contains an unauthenticated database-destruction and arbitrary-data-injection vulnerability in the Socket.IO server's database_backup event handler that allows any unauthenticated network peer to wipe or replace the entire SQLite database by sending a single full_restore command with a caller-supplied SQL blob. 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 database_backup event to drop every existing table and recreate the database from attacker-controlled CREATE TABLE and INSERT INTO statements executed via raw exec_driver_sql, permanently destroying all satellite records, orbital sources, hardware configurations, and observation schedules, or planting fabricated orbital-source URLs and observation entries that redirect the ground station to attacker-controlled servers on the next scheduled sync.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- 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
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Efstratios Goudelis | Ground Station | before 0.6.0 | 0.6.0 | Patch available | CNA |
- Ground Station VendorEfstratios Goudelis Affected before 0.6.0 Fixed in 0.6.0 Patch available CNA
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Ground Station (Efstratios Goudelis) Fixed in 0.6.0
Fixed in the same release
Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.
- Advisory ·
Efstratios Goudelis Ground Station — GitHub Security Advisory (GHSA-mjp8-x6h7-229q)
3 records Highest priority Priority MEDIUM 3 MEDIUM
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2026-38940 Ground Station prior to 0.6.0 Unauthenticated Persistent Blind Server-Side Request Forgery via Orbital Data Source URLPriority MEDIUM 46
- TI-2026-38942 Ground Station prior to 0.6.0 Unauthenticated DoS via service_control Socket.IOPriority MEDIUM 45
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-53984
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-g756-f8g3-qffc
References
More Efstratios Goudelis vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-38940 Ground Station prior to 0.6.0 Unauthenticated Persistent Blind Server-Side Request Forgery via Orbital Data Source URL CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.2
- TI-2026-38942 Ground Station prior to 0.6.0 Unauthenticated DoS via service_control Socket.IO CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
Sources
- CVE-2026-53984 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-53984 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-g756-f8g3-qffc · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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