CVE-2026-41570CWE-88CWE-93

PHPUnit: Argument injection via newline in PHP INI values forwarded to child processes

High · published May 8, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
19.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

PHPUnit is a testing framework for PHP. In versions 12.5.21 and 13.1.5, PHPUnit forwards PHP INI settings to child processes (used for isolated/PHPT test execution) as -d name=value command-line arguments without neutralizing INI metacharacters. Because PHP's INI parser interprets " as a string delimiter, ; as the start of a comment, and most importantly a newline as a directive separator, a value containing a newline is parsed by the child process as multiple INI directives. An attacker able to influence a single INI value can therefore inject arbitrary additional directives into the child's configuration, including auto_prepend_file, extension, disable_functions, open_basedir, and others. Setting auto_prepend_file to an attacker-controlled path yields remote code execution in the child process. This issue has been patched in versions 12.5.22 and 13.1.6.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00284 · 19.8th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-88 · Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection'); CWE-93 · Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences ('CRLF Injection')
Published
2026-05-08T14:33Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 08 MAY 14:33Z
    PHPUnit: Argument injection via newline in PHP INI values forwarded to child processes
    cvelistv5