DroneAware's Improper Account Activation in Registration and SSO Flows Leads to Account Takeover

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Summary

CVECVE-2026-48117
StatePUBLISHED
AssignerGitHub_M
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2026-06-17 15:16:58 UTC
Updated2026-06-17 17:17:20 UTC
DescriptionDroneAware is a drone detection platform. The centralized DroneAware server backing droneaware.io was vulnerable to an account pre-hijacking attack in which an attacker could register an account using a victim's email address with an attacker-controlled password before the victim completed account activation. When the legitimate owner later activated the account, either by clicking the email verification link or by logging in via Google SSO, the attacker-set password became fully valid, enabling silent and persistent account takeover without any notification to the victim. The vulnerability was fixed server-side on 2025-05-20; no user action is required. Node binaries and self-hosted detection nodes are not affected. There are no workarounds; the fix was deployed server-side and no client-side mitigation is applicable.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v3.1 6.8 MEDIUM from [email protected]

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Problem Types: CWE-287 | CWE-302 | CWE-287 CWE-287: Improper Authentication | CWE-302 CWE-302: Authentication Bypass by Assumed-Immutable Data

VersionSourceTypeScoreSeverityVector
3.1[email protected]Secondary6.8MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
3.1CNADECLARED6.8MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

CVSS v3.1 Breakdown

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Fduflyer DroneAware-Node-Releases affected < server-2026-05-20 Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
github.com/fduflyer/DroneAware-Node-Releases/security/advisories/GHSA-h2... 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 github.com
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