Efstratios Goudelis Ground Station up to 0.5.x Socket.IO server database_backup event handler sql injection

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A vulnerability categorized as critical has been discovered in Efstratios Goudelis Ground Station up to 0.5.x. This affects the function database_backup event handler of the component Socket.IO server. Such manipulation leads to sql injection. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2026-53984. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability was found in Efstratios Goudelis Ground Station up to 0.5.x. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is the function database_backup event handler of the component Socket.IO server. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a sql injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-89. The product constructs all or part of an SQL command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended SQL command when it is sent to a downstream component. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-53984 since 06/11/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1505.

Upgrading to version 0.6.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Efstratios Goudelis

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• Ground Station

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• 0.1
• 0.2
• 0.3
• 0.4
• 0.5

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