diff --git a/core/lib/Drupal/Core/DrupalKernel.php b/core/lib/Drupal/Core/DrupalKernel.php
index 37ed0e97a6..8cb9bcd1bc 100644
--- a/core/lib/Drupal/Core/DrupalKernel.php
+++ b/core/lib/Drupal/Core/DrupalKernel.php
@@ -974,16 +974,18 @@ public static function bootEnvironment($app_root = NULL) {
     // sites/default/default.settings.php contains more runtime settings.
     // The .htaccess file contains settings that cannot be changed at runtime.
 
-    // Use session cookies, not transparent sessions that puts the session id in
-    // the query string.
-    ini_set('session.use_cookies', '1');
-    ini_set('session.use_only_cookies', '1');
-    ini_set('session.use_trans_sid', '0');
-    // Don't send HTTP headers using PHP's session handler.
-    // Send an empty string to disable the cache limiter.
-    ini_set('session.cache_limiter', '');
-    // Use httponly session cookies.
-    ini_set('session.cookie_httponly', '1');
+    if (PHP_SAPI !== 'cli') {
+      // Use session cookies, not transparent sessions that puts the session id
+      // in the query string.
+      ini_set('session.use_cookies', '1');
+      ini_set('session.use_only_cookies', '1');
+      ini_set('session.use_trans_sid', '0');
+      // Don't send HTTP headers using PHP's session handler.
+      // Send an empty string to disable the cache limiter.
+      ini_set('session.cache_limiter', '');
+      // Use httponly session cookies.
+      ini_set('session.cookie_httponly', '1');
+    }
 
     // Set sane locale settings, to ensure consistent string, dates, times and
     // numbers handling.