In short
- CVE-2025-64494 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.6) vulnerability affecting github.com/charmbracelet/soft-serve.
- Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.19%, higher than 8.8% of all vulnerabilities.
- Fix: update to 0.11.0 or later.
Description
Impact
In several places where the user can insert data (e.g. names), ANSI escape sequences are not being removed, which can then be used, for example, to show fake alerts.
In the same token, git messages, when printed, are also not being sanitized.
Places in which this was found:
- Repository Description (pkg/backend/repo.go - SetDescription)
- Repository Project Name (pkg/backend/repo.go - SetProjectName)
- Git Commit Author Names (pkg/ssh/cmd/commit.go:69)
- Git Commit Messages (pkg/ssh/cmd/commit.go:71)
- Access Token Names (pkg/ssh/cmd/token.go:107)
- Webhook URLs (pkg/ssh/cmd/webhooks.go:72)
Patches
v0.11.0
Workarounds
No.
References
n/a
NVD description
Soft Serve is a self-hostable Git server for the command line. In versions prior to 0.10.0, there are several places where the user can insert data (e.g. names) and ANSI escape sequences are not being removed, which can then be used, for example, to show fake alerts. In the same token, git messages, when printed, are also not being sanitized. This issue is fixed in version 0.10.0.
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