Medium severity · published Aug 19, 2026
CVE-2026-53452
Ground Station: Unauthenticated out-of-containment file read via `sigmfplayback` `recordingPath`
5.3
CVSS
0.5%
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 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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 43% 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-2026-53452
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53452
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-g344-jqcx-cr7q
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