vulnerability
Ubuntu: USN-7603-1 (CVE-2022-24828): Composer vulnerabilities
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | Apr 13, 2022 | Jun 26, 2025 | Aug 18, 2025 |
Description
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.
Solution
References
- CVE-2022-24828
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2022-24828
- CWE-20
- CWE-88
- UBUNTU-USN-7603-1
- URL-https://github.com/composer/composer/commit/2c40c53637c5c7e43fff7c09d3d324d632734709
- URL-https://github.com/composer/composer/security/advisories/GHSA-x7cr-6qr6-2hh6
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-24828
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