CVE-2026-24058 HIGH

CVE-2026-24058: Soft Serve has Critical Authentication Bypass

Vendor Charmbracelet
Product soft-serve
Weakness CWE-289
Published January 22, 2026
Last update January 23, 2026

CVSS base score

8.1/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality
Integrity

CVSS 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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

January 22, 2026 CVE published
January 23, 2026 Record updated