CVE-2026-24058

Soft Serve has Critical Authentication Bypass

Published Jan 22, 2026 CVSS 4.0 · 8.1 High EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
Soft Serve is a self-hostable Git server for the command line. Versions 0.11.2 and below have a critical authentication bypass vulnerability that allows an attacker to impersonate any user (including admin) by "offering" the victim's public key during the SSH handshake before authenticating with their own valid key. This occurs because the user identity is stored in the session context during the "offer" phase and is not cleared if that specific authentication attempt fails. This issue has been fixed in version 0.11.3.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-pchf-49fh-w34r Soft Serve Affected by an Authentication Bypass
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Charm
Charm soft Serve
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:charm:soft_serve:*:*:*:*:*:go:*:*
Vendors & Products Charm
Charm soft Serve
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 9.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Charmbracelet
Charmbracelet soft-serve
Vendors & Products Charmbracelet
Charmbracelet soft-serve
Type Values Removed Values Added
Description Soft Serve is a self-hostable Git server for the command line. Versions 0.11.2 and below have a critical authentication bypass vulnerability that allows an attacker to impersonate any user (including admin) by "offering" the victim's public key during the SSH handshake before authenticating with their own valid key. This occurs because the user identity is stored in the session context during the "offer" phase and is not cleared if that specific authentication attempt fails. This issue has been fixed in version 0.11.3.
Title Soft Serve has Critical Authentication Bypass
Weaknesses CWE-289
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 8.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Jan 23, 2026, 8:14 PM
Reserved
Jan 20, 2026, 10:30 PM
Status
Analyzed
Published
Jan 22, 2026, 10:16 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 10:22 AM