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GHSA-56wx-66px-9j66 OPKSSH Vulnerable to Authentication Bypass

CRITICAL Published 2025-05-13 Modified 2025-05-13 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2025-4658
Ecosystem
Go
Packages
github.com/openpubkey/opkssh
Severity
Critical
CVSS vector
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
Weaknesses
CWE-305
Reviewed
2025-05-13

Affected packages

• Go github.com/openpubkey/opkssh: < 0.5.0 → fixed in 0.5.0

Description

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

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2025-4658 Versions of OpenPubkey library prior to 0.10.0 contained a vulnerability that would allow a specially crafted JWS to bypass signature… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-305 Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness weakness

References