Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-53985 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-53985 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-53985?
- High severity, with a CVSS score of 7.5, published 6 August 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Sgoudelis Ground Station prior to 0.6.0.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-53985?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2026-53985 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-53985?
- Check whether you run Sgoudelis Ground Station at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
The vulnerability is an unauthenticated denial-of-service in the Socket.IO server's service_control event handler. Authentication is disabled and a wildcard CORS policy allows any network peer to connect to port 7000 and emit a restart_service command, which forcibly terminates the ground-station process. This kills all active satellite-tracking sessions, SDR recording pipelines, demodulators, decoders, and rotator controllers. In Docker deployments, the process will automatically restart, allowing an attacker to repeatedly trigger the crash and create a sustained denial-of-service condition. No authentication or special permissions are required.
Affected products
- sgoudelis Ground Station prior to 0.6.0
Timeline
- 2026-08-06: disclosed: CVE-2026-53985 published
- 2026-06-16: other: Commit 2ecde82 addressing concurrent database issues, suggesting ongoing development