Vulnerability CVE-2023-43655
Published: 2023-09-29

Description:
Composer is a dependency manager for PHP. Users publishing a composer.phar to a public web-accessible server where the composer.phar can be executed as a php file may be subject to a remote code execution vulnerability if PHP also has `register_argc_argv` enabled in php.ini. Versions 2.6.4, 2.2.22 and 1.10.27 patch this vulnerability. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should make sure `register_argc_argv` is disabled in php.ini, and avoid publishing composer.phar to the web as this is not best practice.

Type:

CWE-74

 References:
https://github.com/composer/composer/commit/955a48e6319c8962e5cd421b07c00ab3c728968c
https://github.com/composer/composer/security/advisories/GHSA-jm6m-4632-36hf
https://github.com/composer/composer/commit/95e091c921037b7b6564942845e7b738f6b95c9c
https://github.com/composer/composer/commit/4fce14795aba98e40b6c4f5047305aba17a6120d
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