This page lists all known and fixed security vulnerabilities in WeeChat stable releases.
The security vulnerabilities introduced during development of a version and fixed before a stable release are not mentioned.
WeeChat Security Advisories (WSA) are sent to this mailing list, as soon as they are made public:
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To report a security issue, please DO NOT file an issue on GitHub, but send an email to security@weechat.org instead.
After changing the options weechat.network.gnutls_ca_system or weechat.network.gnutls_ca_user, the TLS verification function is lost.
Consequently, any connection to a server with TLS is made without verifying the certificate, which could lead to a man-in-the-middle attack.
Connection to IRC servers with TLS is affected, as well as any connection a server made by a plugin or a script using the function hook_connect.
Mitigation
After changing options weechat.network.gnutls_ca_system or weechat.network.gnutls_ca_user, you must restart WeeChat.
WSA-2021-1: [Relay] Crash on malformed websocket frame in relay plugin.
A crash happens when decoding a malformed websocket frame in relay plugin.
This happens even if a password is set in relay plugin, the malformed websocket frame can be received before the authentication of the client.
Mitigation
There are multiple ways to mitigate this issue:
Rremove all relays, see: /help relay
Unload relay plugin with command: /plugin unload relay and see: /help weechat.plugin.autoload
Secure relay to allow only some trusted IP addresses, see: /help relay.network.allowed_ips
Credit
The issue was discovered by Stuart Nevans Locke.
WSA-2020-3: [IRC] Buffer overflow on new IRC message 005 with nick prefixes.
A buffer overflow happens when a new IRC message 005 is received with longer nick prefixes.
Note: a "normal" IRC server should not send again a message 005 with new nick prefixes, so the problem should be limited to malicious IRC servers.
Mitigation
There is no known mitigation.
The upgrade of WeeChat to the latest stable version is highly recommended.
Credit
The issue was discovered by Stuart Nevans Locke.
WSA-2020-2: [IRC] Crash on malformed IRC message 352 (WHO).
Date/time conversion specifiers are expanded after replacing buffer local variables in name of log files. In some cases, this can lead to an error in function strftime and a crash caused by the use of an uninitialized buffer.
Mitigation
You can unload the logger plugin, thus stopping recording of all buffers: /plugin unload logger.
Credit
The issue was discovered by Joseph Bisch.
WSA-2017-1: [IRC] Buffer overflow when receiving a DCC file.
Strings are built with uncontrolled format when IRC commands are redirected by relay plugin. If the output or redirected command contains formatting chars like "%", this can lead to a crash of WeeChat.
Mitigation
You can remove all relays of type "irc", see /help relay.
WSA-2013-2: [IRC] Crash on send of unknown commands to IRC server.
Untrusted command for function hook_process could lead to execution of commands, because of shell expansions (so the problem is only caused by some scripts, not by WeeChat itself).
Mitigation
Remove/unload all scripts calling the API function hook_process.