- 3.3LowCVSS base score
- 0.11%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 99% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
kas is a setup tool for bitbake based projects. Prior to 5.4, internal SSH key setup triggered by SSH_PRIVATE_KEY or SSH_PRIVATE_KEY_FILE creates ~/.ssh/config when no user-specific SSH configuration exists and adds a global Host * rule containing StrictHostKeyChecking no. In kas/libcmds.py, ssh_no_host_key_check() runs without checking ctx.managed_env, so the setting persists after kas exits and affects future SSH sessions by the same local user, extending beyond the intended short-lived continuous integration environment. A later SSH connection can therefore accept an attacker-controlled host key without verification, increasing the risk of a man-in-the-middle attack that compromises session confidentiality or integrity. This issue is fixed in version 5.4.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Low3.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Low3.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.11% · top 99% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.3.
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
References
References3
- https://github.com/siemens/kas/security/advisories/GHSA-mv8m-v9v6-5f94 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/siemens/kas/commit/1c1e861c9f241ce082b86bef6bedc7da9b676294 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/siemens/kas/releases/tag/5.4 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-66560 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-mv8m-v9v6-5f94 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2026-54548)Record last updated .