CVE-2022-24828 Missing input validation can lead to command execution in composer

What is CVE-2022-24828?

CVE-2022-24828 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 13 Apr 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-88, CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-24828?

7 open source packages ship an affected version, including composer/composer and composer. It affects 3 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Getcomposer Composer, Tenable Tenable.sc.

How do I fix CVE-2022-24828?

Upgrade composer/composer to a fixed version for your release line: 1.10.26, 2.2.12 or 2.3.5.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2022-24828 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-24828 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as BIT-composer-2022-24828, CLEANSTART-2024-VD23894, DEBIAN-CVE-2022-24828, GHSA-x7cr-6qr6-2hh6, SUSE-SU-2022:3020-1, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-24828 and 2 more.