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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2023-43655: Composer: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Aug 6, 2025
Added
Aug 7, 2025
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

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.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-php-composer
Title
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