Critical severity · published Aug 19, 2026
CVE-2026-53451
Ground Station: Unauthenticated arbitrary file write (path traversal) in save-waterfall-snapshot leads to remote code execution
9.8
CVSS
1.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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 save-waterfall-snapshot Socket.IO command passes attacker-controlled snapshotName input from backend/handlers/entities/sdr.py to backend/server/snapshots.py, where os.path.join permits an absolute path or parent-directory traversal and writes attacker-controlled base64-decoded bytes outside backend/data/snapshots. An attacker can write a logging YAML file containing a logging.config.dictConfig callable factory, use the unauthenticated update-app-config operation to set log_config to that file, and invoke restart_service. During restart, backend/common/logger.py passes the YAML through resolve_log_config_path(), yaml.safe_load(), and logging.config.dictConfig(), which executes the factory with service privileges and can also cause a persistent crash loop. This issue is fixed in version 0.4.13.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.1% · higher than 65% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
GR
ground-station · sgoudelis
< 0.4.13 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-53451
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53451
github.com
https://github.com/sgoudelis/ground-station/commit/5649905f1021155933463a54a76030924adffb9d
github.com
https://github.com/sgoudelis/ground-station/releases/tag/v0.4.13
github.com
https://github.com/sgoudelis/ground-station/security/advisories/GHSA-q35x-w3h6-36w8
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