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GHSA-56WX-66PX-9J66

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-05-13 21:34 – Updated: 2025-05-13 21:34

Summary

OPKSSH Vulnerable to Authentication Bypass

Details

Impact

Versions of OpenPubkey library prior to 0.10.0 contained a vulnerability that would allow a specially crafted JWS to bypass signature verification. As OPKSSH depends on the OpenPubkey library for authentication, this vulnerability in OpenPubkey also applies to OPKSSH versions prior to 0.5.0 and would allow an attacker to bypass OPKSSH authentication.

Patches

The vulnerability does not exist in more recent versions of OPKSSH. his only impacts OPKSSH when used to verify ssh keys on a server, the OPKSSH client is unaffected. To remediate upgrade to a version of OPKSSH v0.5.0 or greater.

To determine if you are vulnerable run on your server:

opkssh --version

If the version is less than 0.5.0 you should upgrade. To upgrade to the latest version run:

wget -qO- "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openpubkey/opkssh/main/scripts/install-linux.sh" | sudo bash

References

CVE-2025-4658

The upstream vulnerability in OpenPubkey is CVE-2025-3757 and has the security advisory https://github.com/openpubkey/openpubkey/security/advisories/GHSA-537f-gxgm-3jjq

Severity

9.3 (Critical)


                  
                    CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L

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CVE-2025-4658 (GCVE-0-2025-4658)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-13 16:33 – Updated: 2025-05-13 20:11

Title

Authentication Bypass in OPKSSH

Summary

Severity

9.3 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-05-13 20:09 UTC

CWE

CWE-305 - Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness

Assigner

cloudflare CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard – unranked: 5 records in the last 180 days, 10 needed details

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://github.com/openpubkey/opkssh

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
OPKSSH	OPKSSH	Affected: 0.1.0 , ≤ 0.4.0 (custom)

Date Public

2025-05-13 16:33

Credits

Ethan Heilman

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