CVE-2021-41116

Composer 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.

Published: Oct 5, 2021
Updated: May 9, 2024
CVE: CVE-2021-41116
GHSA: GHSA-frqg-7g38-6gcf
Severity: Critical
Exploit:

CVSS v3:

Severity: Critical
Score: 9.8
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2:

Severity: High
Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWEs:

CWE-77

OWASP TOP 10:

A1 - Injection

Affected Software
References

Software	From	Fixed in
getcomposer / composer	-	1.10.23
getcomposer / composer	2.0.0	2.1.9
tenable / tenable.sc	-	5.21.0
composer / composer	-	1.10.23
composer / composer	2.0	2.1.9

https://github.com/composer/composer/commit/ca5e2f8d505fd3bfac6f7c85b82f2740becbc0aa
https://github.com/composer/composer/security/advisories/GHSA-frqg-7g38-6gcf
https://www.sonarsource.com/blog/securing-developer-tools-package-managers/
https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2022-09

Vulnerability Database

289,697

CVE-2021-41116