Loading vulnerability…
CVE-2026-53451 is a critical unauthenticated vulnerability in Ground Station affecting versions prior to 0.4.13. The save-waterfall-snapshot Socket.IO command accepts attacker-controlled snapshotName input and passes it from backend/handlers/entities/sdr.py to backend/server/snapshots.py, where path handling with os.path.join fails to constrain writes to the intended snapshots directory. Because absolute paths and parent-directory traversal are permitted, an attacker can cause attacker-controlled base64-decoded content to be written outside the designated snapshot storage location. This arbitrary file write can be chained with the unauthenticated update-app-config operation to point log_config at a malicious YAML logging configuration, followed by restart_service. During restart, backend/common/logger.py processes that configuration through resolve_log_config_path(), yaml.safe_load(), and logging.config.dictConfig(), allowing execution of an attacker-supplied callable factory with service privileges. The same chain can also be used to induce a persistent crash loop.
Mallory correlates every CVE against your assets, your vendors, and active adversary campaigns. Know which vulnerabilities matter for you, not just which ones are loud.
What it means. What to do now. Patch path, mitigations, and the assume-compromise checklist.
What an attacker gets, and what they’ve been doing with it.
If you can’t patch tonight, do this now.
Patch, then assume compromise.
No public exploits tracked yet. Mallory keeps watching.
No public exploit code observed for this vulnerability.
4 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
Query your assets running an affected version, and investigate the blast radius.
Every observed campaign linking this CVE to a named adversary.
Malware families riding this exploit, with evidence and IOCs.
YARA, Sigma, Snort, and vendor rules, auto-deployed to your SIEM.
Cross-references every affected SKU, including bundled OEM variants.
Community discussion across Reddit, Mastodon, and other social sources.