OPKSSH Vulnerable to Authentication Bypass in github.com/openpubkey/opkssh

Open Source Vulnerabilities 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 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.

Open Source Vulnerabilities GO-2025-3680

OPKSSH Vulnerable to Authentication Bypass in github.com/openpubkey/opkssh

Open Source Vulnerabilities GHSA-56wx-66px-9j66

### 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](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-4658) The upstream vulnerability in OpenPubkey is [CVE-2025-3757](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-3757) and has the security advisory https://github.com/openpubkey/openpubkey/security/advisories/GHSA-537f-gxgm-3jjq