Soft Serve vulnerable to arbitrary file writing through SSH API

Description

Attackers can create/override arbitrary files with uncontrolled data.

For a PoC, spin up an instance of soft-serve as explained in the README, and execute the following command:

ssh -p23231 localhost repo commit icecream -- --output=/tmp/pwned

It should have created a file in /tmp/pwned.

Basic information

Type
reviewed
Severity
high
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Published (advisory)
2025-09-02 19:43:03 UTC
Updated
2025-09-04 13:52:03 UTC
GitHub reviewed
2025-09-02 19:43:03 UTC
NVD published
2025-09-04

EPSS Score

Score Percentile
0.07% 20.67%

CVSS Scores

Base score Version Severity Vector
7.7 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:L)
A normal user session is enough; they don’t have to be admin.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:C)
Breaking this can reach past the original component and bite other resources—bigger blast radius.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:H)
They could widely tamper with or forge data—trust in the data is badly hurt.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.

Identifiers

CWEs

CWE id Name
CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Credits

  • msanft (reporter)
  • caarlos0 (coordinator)

Affected packages (1)

Vulnerable version ranges and first patched releases as published by GitHub.

Ecosystem Package Vulnerable range First patched Vulnerable functions
go github.com/charmbracelet/soft-serve < 0.10.0 0.10.0

References

cvelogic Threat Intelligence