fduflyer DroneAware-Node-Releases 2025-05-20 improper authentication

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in fduflyer DroneAware-Node-Releases 2025-05-20. This affects an unknown part. Executing a manipulation can lead to improper authentication. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-48117. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability was found in fduflyer DroneAware-Node-Releases 2025-05-20. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper authentication vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-287. When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

DroneAware is a drone detection platform. The centralized DroneAware server backing droneaware.io was vulnerable to an account pre-hijacking attack in which an attacker could register an account using a victim's email address with an attacker-controlled password before the victim completed account activation. When the legitimate owner later activated the account, either by clicking the email verification link or by logging in via Google SSO, the attacker-set password became fully valid, enabling silent and persistent account takeover without any notification to the victim. The vulnerability was fixed server-side on 2025-05-20; no user action is required. Node binaries and self-hosted detection nodes are not affected. There are no workarounds; the fix was deployed server-side and no client-side mitigation is applicable.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-48117 since 05/20/2026. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

Upgrading to version 2026-05-20 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• fduflyer

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• DroneAware-Node-Releases

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• 2025-05-20

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• Product: https://github.com/fduflyer/DroneAware-Node-Releases/

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