Impact
Several files within the local working directory are included during the invocation of Composer and in the context of the executing user.
As such, under certain conditions arbitrary code execution may lead to local privilege escalation, provide lateral user movement or malicious code execution when Composer is invoked within a directory with tampered files.
All Composer CLI commands are affected, including composer.phar's self-update.
The following are of high risk:
- Composer being run with sudo. - Pipelines which may execute Composer on untrusted projects. - Shared environments with developers who run Composer individually on the same project.
Patches
2.7.0, 2.2.23
Workarounds
- It is advised that the patched versions are applied at the earliest convenience.
Where not possible, the following should be addressed: - Remove all sudo composer privileges for all users to mitigate root privilege escalation. - Avoid running Composer within an untrusted directory, or if needed, verify that the contents of vendor/composer/InstalledVersions.php and vendor/composer/installed.php do not include untrusted code.
A reset can also be done on these files by the following:
sh rm vendor/composer/installed.php vendor/composer/InstalledVersions.php composer install --no-scripts --no-plugins
Impact Windows users running Composer to install untrusted dependencies are affected and should definitely upgrade for safety. Other OSs and WSL are not affected.
Patches 1.10.23 and 2.1.9 fix the issue
Workarounds None
Impact Attackers controlling remote sources that Composer downloads from might in some way inject ANSI control characters in the terminal output of various Composer commands, causing mangled output and potentially leading to confusion or DoS of the terminal application.
There is no proven exploit and this has thus a low severity but Composer still published a CVE as it has potential for abuse, and Composer wants to be on the safe side informing users that they should upgrade.
Patches 2.2.26 for 2.2 LTS or 2.9.3 for mainline.