CVE-2023-43809: high-severity vulnerability in charmbracelet soft-serve
Soft Serve Public Key Authentication Bypass Vulnerability when Keyboard-Interactive SSH Authentication is Enabled
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21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.5epss 1.2%
Soft Serve is a self-hostable Git server for the command line. Prior to version 0.6.2, a security vulnerability in Soft Serve could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass public key authentication when keyboard-interactive SSH authentication is active, through the `allow-keyless` setting, and the public key requires additional client-side verification for example using FIDO2 or GPG. This is due to insufficient validation procedures of the public key step during SSH request handshake, granting unauthorized access if the keyboard-interaction mode is utilized. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by presenting manipulated SSH requests using keyboard-interactive authentication mode. This could potentially result in unauthorized access to the Soft Serve. Users should upgrade to the latest Soft Serve version `v0.6.2` to receive the patch for this issue. To workaround this vulnerability without upgrading, users can temporarily disable Keyboard-Interactive SSH Authentication using the `allow-keyless` setting.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Affected products
charmbracelet · soft-serveRelated CVEs — charmbracelet soft-serve
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CVE-2025-22130MEDIUMSoft Serve allows path traversal attacksEPSS 0.7%CVE-2026-24058HIGHSoft Serve has Critical Authentication BypassEPSS 0.6%CVE-2024-41956HIGHSoft Serve allows arbitrary code execution by crafting git-lfs requestsEPSS 0.5%CVE-2026-33353HIGHSoft Serve: Authenticated repo import can clone server-local private repositoriesEPSS 0.4%CVE-2025-64522CRITICALSoft Serve is vulnerable to SSRF through its WebhooksEPSS 0.4%CVE-2026-30832CRITICALSoft Serve: SSRF via unvalidated LFS endpoint in repo importEPSS 0.4%
References
https://github.com/charmbracelet/soft-serve/commit/407c4ec72d1006cee1ff8c1775e5bcc091c2bc89https://github.com/charmbracelet/soft-serve/issues/389https://github.com/charmbracelet/soft-serve/releases/tag/v0.6.2https://github.com/charmbracelet/soft-serve/security/advisories/GHSA-mc97-99j4-vm2v