CVE-2022-24828

Missing input validation can lead to command execution in composer

State
Published
Severity
8.3 High
Published
Apr 13, 2022
Updated
Apr 23, 2025
Reserved
Feb 10, 2022

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Description

Composer is a dependency manager for the PHP programming language. Integrators using Composer code to call `VcsDriver::getFileContent` can have a code injection vulnerability if the user can control the `$file` or `$identifier` argument. This leads to a vulnerability on packagist.org for example where the composer.json's `readme` field can be used as a vector for injecting parameters into hg/Mercurial via the `$file` argument, or git via the `$identifier` argument if you allow arbitrary data there (Packagist does not, but maybe other integrators do). Composer itself should not be affected by the vulnerability as it does not call `getFileContent` with arbitrary data into `$file`/`$identifier`. To the best of our knowledge this was not abused, and the vulnerability has been patched on packagist.org and Private Packagist within a day of the vulnerability report.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.18.3 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

Affected Products

ProductVersions
composercomposer
  • < 1.10.26Affected
  • >= 2.0.0, < 2.2.12Affected
  • >= 2.3, < 2.3.6Affected

References

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