CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-52767
8.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-09-05
- Last modified
- 2026-09-08
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.2 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L
- Weaknesses
- CWE-347
Description
YesWiki is a wiki system written in PHP. From version 4.6.2 to before version 4.6.6, HttpSignatureService::verifySignature() checks the result of PHP's openssl_verify() with a loose boolean negation - if (!openssl_verify(...)) { throw ... }. PHP's openssl_verify has four possible return values: 1, 0, -1, and "false". The -1 row is the bypass: PHP's truthiness rules make -1 a truthy value, so !(-1) === false, the throw is skipped, and the controller proceeds to processActivity(). Any condition that makes OpenSSL's EVP_VerifyFinal() return -1 triggers the bypass. The reachable consequence is the controller silently treats a failed verification as success and processes the attacker's payload. This issue has been patched in version 4.6.6.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-347 Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature weakness
References
- https://github.com/YesWiki/yeswiki/commit/d1795e0301e1a1078f17b4b98f56fff70de2029e github.com
- https://github.com/YesWiki/yeswiki/releases/tag/v4.6.6 github.com
- https://github.com/YesWiki/yeswiki/security/advisories/GHSA-mv28-wj57-f57g github.com
- https://github.com/YesWiki/yeswiki/security/advisories/GHSA-mv28-wj57-f57g github.com