Upstream information
Description
WP-CLI is the command-line interface for WordPress. An improper error handling in HTTPS requests management in WP-CLI version 0.12.0 and later allows remote attackers able to intercept the communication to remotely disable the certificate verification on WP-CLI side, gaining full control over the communication content, including the ability to impersonate update servers and push malicious updates towards WordPress instances controlled by the vulnerable WP-CLI agent, or push malicious updates toward WP-CLI itself. The vulnerability stems from the fact that the default behavior of `WP_CLI\Utils\http_request()` when encountering a TLS handshake error is to disable certificate validation and retry the same request. The default behavior has been changed with version 2.5.0 of WP-CLI and the `wp-cli/wp-cli` framework (via https://github.com/wp-cli/wp-cli/pull/5523) so that the `WP_CLI\Utils\http_request()` method accepts an `$insecure` option that is `false` by default and consequently that a TLS handshake failure is a hard error by default. This new default is a breaking change and ripples through to all consumers of `WP_CLI\Utils\http_request()`, including those in separate WP-CLI bundled or third-party packages. https://github.com/wp-cli/wp-cli/pull/5523 has also added an `--insecure` flag to the `cli update` command to counter this breaking change. There is no direct workaround for the default insecure behavior of `wp-cli/wp-cli` versions before 2.5.0. The workaround for dealing with the breaking change in the commands directly affected by the new secure default behavior is to add the `--insecure` flag to manually opt-in to the previous insecure behavior.SUSE information
Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products
This issue is currently rated as having important severity.
| National Vulnerability Database | |
|---|---|
| Base Score | 7.5 |
| Vector | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | Low |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | Partial |
| Integrity Impact | Partial |
| Availability Impact | Partial |
| National Vulnerability Database | |
|---|---|
| Base Score | 7.4 |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
| Attack Vector | Network |
| Attack Complexity | High |
| Privileges Required | None |
| User Interaction | None |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality Impact | High |
| Integrity Impact | High |
| Availability Impact | None |
| CVSSv3 Version | 3.1 |
List of released packages
| Product(s) | Fixed package version(s) | References |
|---|---|---|
| openSUSE Tumbleweed |
| Patchnames: openSUSE Tumbleweed GA wp-cli-2.5.0-1.2 |
SUSE Timeline for this CVE
CVE page created: Tue Jun 8 05:09:42 2021CVE page last modified: Wed Oct 26 23:10:25 2022