CVE-2022-24828CWE-20

Missing input validation can lead to command execution in composer

High · published April 13, 2022

CVSS v3.1
8.3
EPSS
2%
Percentile
79.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.3 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01886 · 79.3th percentile
Weakness
CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation
Published
2022-04-13T21:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 13 APR 21:00Z
    Missing input validation can lead to command execution in composer
    cvelistv5