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Advisory record · GHSA-mv8m-v9v6-5f94

kas Persistently Disables SSH Host Key Checking

CVSS 3.3 LowEPSS 0.0011 · 1st percentile

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 26 Aug 2026, 14:18 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
kasPyPI<5.45.4
Identifiers
GHSA-mv8m-v9v6-5f94 · CVE-2026-54548 · PYSEC-2026-3855
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-295
Tags
Published
26 Aug 2026
Updated
10 Sept 2026

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

kas versions before 5.4 persistently disable SSH host key checking for the invoking user when SSH key setup is triggered via SSH_PRIVATE_KEY or SSH_PRIVATE_KEY_FILE and no ~/.ssh/config exists. kas writes a global rule with StrictHostKeyChecking set to no, which weakens verification of SSH connections the user makes later, outside kas itself. Upgrade to kas 5.4 or later. If running an affected version, create your own ~/.ssh/config before calling kas, or remove the settings kas added to it.

Written 1 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
3.3 Low 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N CNA (GitHub_M)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0011, the 1st percentile, on 9 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 31 Oct 2026, 14:10 UTC First seen by agentprime
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 14:10 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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