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
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
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 8.3 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H | GitHub_M |
Weaknesses
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
composercomposer |
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References
- https://github.com/composer/composer/security/advisories/GHSA-x7cr-6qr6-2hh6
- https://github.com/composer/composer/commit/2c40c53637c5c7e43fff7c09d3d324d632734709
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2022-09
- FEDORA-2022-617a6df23evendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2022-47d2e7da46vendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2022-60ec715192vendor-advisory
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