Upstream information

CVE-2025-54123 at MITRE

Description

Hoverfly is an open source API simulation tool. In versions 1.11.3 and prior, the middleware functionality in Hoverfly is vulnerable to command injection vulnerability at `/api/v2/hoverfly/middleware` endpoint due to insufficient validation and sanitization in user input. The vulnerability exists in the middleware management API endpoint `/api/v2/hoverfly/middleware`. This issue is born due to combination of three code level flaws: Insufficient Input Validation in middleware.go line 94-96; Unsafe Command Execution in local_middleware.go line 14-19; and Immediate Execution During Testing in hoverfly_service.go line 173. This allows an attacker to gain remote code execution (RCE) on any system running the vulnerable Hoverfly service. Since the input is directly passed to system commands without proper checks, an attacker can upload a malicious payload or directly execute arbitrary commands (including reverse shells) on the host server with the privileges of the Hoverfly process. Commit 17e60a9bc78826deb4b782dca1c1abd3dbe60d40 in version 1.12.0 disables the set middleware API by default, and subsequent changes to documentation make users aware of the security changes of exposing the set middleware API.

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having critical severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
CVSS detail CNA (GitHub)
Base Score 9.8
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact High
CVSSv3 Version 3.1
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List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/baremetal-os-container:latest
Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/base-os-container:latest
Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/toolbox:latest
Image SL-Micro
Image SL-Micro-Base
Image SL-Micro-Base-RT
Image SL-Micro-Base-RT-SelfInstall
Image SL-Micro-Base-RT-encrypted
Image SL-Micro-Base-SelfInstall
Image SL-Micro-Base-encrypted
Image SL-Micro-Base-qcow
Image SL-Micro-Default
Image SL-Micro-Default-SelfInstall
Image SL-Micro-Default-encrypted
Image SL-Micro-Default-qcow
Image SLE-Micro
Image SLE-Micro-Azure
Image SLE-Micro-BYOS
Image SLE-Micro-BYOS-Azure
Image SLE-Micro-BYOS-EC2
Image SLE-Micro-BYOS-GCE
Image SLE-Micro-EC2
Image SLE-Micro-GCE
  • tar >= 1.35-slfo.1.1_3.1
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • govulncheck-vulndb >= 0.0.20250917T170349-1.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2025-15564

Status of this issue by product and package

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Product(s) Source package State
Products under general support and receiving all security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb In progress
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb In progress

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Wed Sep 10 22:00:39 2025
CVE page last modified: Tue Jul 28 16:25:03 2026