SARA / Free Tools / CVE / CVE-2023-43655

CVE-2023-43655 — Composer is a dependency manager for PHP

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. Vers

CVSS
6.4 MEDIUM
EPSS
1.89% (top 17.00%)
CWE
CWE-74
Published
2023-09-29T19:33:32.183Z
Last modified
2025-06-18T13:59:58.568Z
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

01What is this vulnerability?

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…

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
composercomposer2.6.4, 2.2.21, 1.10.27, >= 2.0, < 2.2.22, < 1.10.27

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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