VDB
KO
HIGH 8.3

GHSA-mcqq-fqgf-rxwm

Coder vulnerable to SSH config injection via unsanitized server-supplied values in `coder config-ssh`

Details

### Summary

`coder config-ssh` wrote server-supplied SSH settings (`HostnameSuffix`, `SSHConfigOptions`) into the user's `~/.ssh/config` without sanitizing embedded newlines or restricting directives so a malicious or compromised Coder server could inject arbitrary SSH configuration.

> **Note:** Practical exploitation requires control of the server-supplied values through a malicious or compromised deployment, a man-in-the-middle position or admin access to the `HostnameSuffix` and `SSHConfigOptions` settings.

### Impact

A server administrator or an attacker who controlled the server, could inject a directive such as `ProxyCommand` and achieve arbitrary code execution on any developer workstation that ran `coder config-ssh`. Injected commands ran with the local user's privileges and applied to all SSH connections, not just Coder workspaces.

### Patches

The fix validates `HostnameSuffix` and `SSHConfigOptions` against a strict character set that rejects newlines and other control characters.

The fix was backported to all supported release lines:

| Release line | Patched version | |---|---| | 2.34 | [v2.34.2](https://github.com/coder/coder/releases/tag/v2.34.2) | | 2.33 | [v2.33.8](https://github.com/coder/coder/releases/tag/v2.33.8) | | 2.32 | [v2.32.7](https://github.com/coder/coder/releases/tag/v2.32.7) | | 2.29 (ESR) | [v2.29.17](https://github.com/coder/coder/releases/tag/v2.29.17) |

### Workarounds

Inspect `coder config-ssh --dry-run` output before applying changes.

### Resources

- Fix: #26154

### Credits

Coder would like to thank Anthropic's Security Team (ANT-2026-22437) for independently disclosing this issue!

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Affected packages

Go / github.com/coder/coder/v2
Introduced in: 2.34.0 Fixed in: 2.34.2
Fix go get github.com/coder/coder/v2@v2.34.2
Go / github.com/coder/coder/v2
Introduced in: 2.33.0 Fixed in: 2.33.8
Fix go get github.com/coder/coder/v2@v2.33.8
Go / github.com/coder/coder/v2
Introduced in: 2.30.0 Fixed in: 2.32.7
Fix go get github.com/coder/coder/v2@v2.32.7
Go / github.com/coder/coder/v2
Introduced in: 0 Fixed in: 2.29.17
Fix go get github.com/coder/coder/v2@v2.29.17

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