CVE-2021-41116

Command injection in composer on Windows

Published: Oct 5, 2021Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSACWE-77

8.2HIGH

Description

Composer is an open source dependency manager for the PHP language. In affected versions windows users running Composer to install untrusted dependencies are subject to command injection and should upgrade their composer version. Other OSs and WSL are not affected. The issue has been resolved in composer versions 1.10.23 and 2.1.9. There are no workarounds for this issue.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

Exploitability

AV:NAttack Vector

Network

AC:LAttack Complexity

Low

PR:NPrivileges Required

None

UI:RUser Interaction

Required

Scope

S:CScope

Changed

Impact

C:HConfidentiality

High

I:LIntegrity

Low

A:NAvailability

None

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Weaknesses

CWE-77

Affected Products

getcomposer

oss-projectaka composer php dependency manager

composerLibrary

OSS Libraries / packagist

tenable

commercial

tenable.scOn-premSecurity Product

Security Products / vuln-mgmt-scanner

package-ecosystem

oss-project

composerLibrary

DevTools & CI / artifact-registry

Exploitability

1 exploit source identified

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References

https://github.com/composer/composer/commit/ca5e2f8d505fd3bfac6f7c85b82f2740becbc0aa

github.com

https://github.com/composer/composer/security/advisories/GHSA-frqg-7g38-6gcf

github.com

https://www.sonarsource.com/blog/securing-developer-tools-package-managers/

sonarsource.com

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