charmbracelet soft-serve up to 0.8.1 path traversal

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A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in charmbracelet soft-serve up to 0.8.1. This affects an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to path traversal. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-22130. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability was found in charmbracelet soft-serve up to 0.8.1 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Soft Serve is a self-hostable Git server for the command line. Prior to 0.8.2 , a path traversal attack allows existing non-admin users to access and take over other user's repositories. A malicious user then can modify, delete, and arbitrarily repositories as if they were an admin user without explicitly giving them permissions. This is patched in v0.8.2.

The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-22130 since 12/30/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1006.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 213966 (SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : govulncheck-vulndb (SUSE-SU-2025:0060-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 0.8.2 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at github.com. Applying the patch a8d1bf3f9349c138383b65079b7b8ad97fff78f4 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (213966). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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• charmbracelet

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• soft-serve

Version

• 0.8.0
• 0.8.1

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• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/charmbracelet/soft-serve/

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