CyberRota Analysis
AI-GeneratedThe vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to exploit the save-waterfall-snapshot command in Ground Station, enabling them to write arbitrary files outside the intended directory, potentially leading to remote code execution with service privileges. This could result in unauthorized access, data manipulation, or service disruption. Organizations using versions prior to 0.4.13 should prioritize patching this critical vulnerability to mitigate the risk of exploitation.
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Original NVD 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.