CVE-2021-41116

Summary

CVECVE-2021-41116
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-10-05 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-10-25 18:16:00 UTC
DescriptionComposer 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-77

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Getcomposer Composer All All All All
Application Tenable Tenable.sc All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Securing Developer Tools: Package Managers | Sonar MISC www.sonarsource.com
Fix escaping issues on Windows which could lead to command injection,… · composer/composer@ca5e2f8 · GitHub MISC github.com
[R1] Tenable.sc 5.21.0 Fixes Multiple Third-Party Vulnerabilities - Security Advisory | Tenable® CONFIRM www.tenable.com
Improper escaping of command arguments on Windows leading to command injection · Advisory · composer/composer · GitHub CONFIRM github.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 501826 Alpine Linux Security Update for composer
  • 504628 Alpine Linux Security Update for composer
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