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.
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine Linux | — | Upgrade composer | Aug 22, 2024 | Apr 13, 2022 |
| Debian | — | Upgrade composer | Jul 30, 2024 | Apr 13, 2022 |
| Freebsd | — | Upgrade php81-composer2Upgrade php81-composerUpgrade php74-composerUpgrade php80-composer2Upgrade php80-composerUpgrade php74-composer2 | Nov 4, 2022 | Apr 13, 2022 |
| Gentoo Linux | — | Upgrade dev-php/composer. | Aug 7, 2025 | Aug 6, 2025 |
| Suse | — | Upgrade php-composer2Upgrade php-composer | Oct 26, 2022 | Apr 13, 2022 |
| Ubuntu | — | Upgrade composer (Ubuntu Pro) | Jun 26, 2025 | Apr 13, 2022 |
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