sgoudelis Ground Station up to 0.4.12 SDR Playback sdr.py recordingPath path traversal

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A vulnerability described as problematic has been identified in sgoudelis Ground Station up to 0.4.12. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file backend/handlers/entities/sdr.py of the component SDR Playback. The manipulation of the argument recordingPath results in path traversal. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2026-53452. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in sgoudelis Ground Station up to 0.4.12. Affected is an unknown code block of the file backend/handlers/entities/sdr.py of the component SDR Playback. The manipulation of the argument recordingPath with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

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.

The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-53452 since 06/09/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1006.

Upgrading to version 0.4.13 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• sgoudelis

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• Ground Station

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• 0.4.0
• 0.4.1
• 0.4.2
• 0.4.3
• 0.4.4
• 0.4.5
• 0.4.6
• 0.4.7
• 0.4.8
• 0.4.9
• 0.4.10
• 0.4.11
• 0.4.12

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