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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2024-03-06 10:50

Modified

2025-05-20 10:02

Summary

Code execution and possible privilege escalation via compromised InstalledVersions.php or installed.php in Composer

Details

Composer is a dependency Manager for the PHP language. In affected versions 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 scenarios 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. This vulnerability has been addressed in versions 2.7.0 and 2.2.23. 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, and 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

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  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Bitnami",
        "name": "composer",
        "purl": "pkg:bitnami/composer"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "2.0.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "2.2.23"
            },
            {
              "introduced": "2.3.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "2.7.0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "SEMVER"
        }
      ],
      "severity": [
        {
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
          "type": "CVSS_V3"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2024-24821"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:getcomposer:composer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "severity": "High"
  },
  "details": "Composer is a dependency Manager for the PHP language. In affected versions 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\u0027s self-update. The following scenarios 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. This vulnerability has been addressed in versions 2.7.0 and 2.2.23. 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, and 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\nrm vendor/composer/installed.php vendor/composer/InstalledVersions.php\ncomposer install --no-scripts --no-plugins\n```",
  "id": "BIT-composer-2024-24821",
  "modified": "2025-05-20T10:02:07.006Z",
  "published": "2024-03-06T10:50:51.366Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/composer/composer/commit/64e4eb356b159a30c766cd1ea83450a38dc23bf5"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/composer/composer/security/advisories/GHSA-7c6p-848j-wh5h"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-24821"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.5.0",
  "summary": "Code execution and possible privilege escalation via compromised InstalledVersions.php or installed.php in Composer"
}

CVE-2024-24821 (GCVE-0-2024-24821)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-02-08 23:54 – Updated: 2025-06-17 21:29

Title

Code execution and possible privilege escalation via compromised InstalledVersions.php or installed.php in Composer

Summary

Composer is a dependency Manager for the PHP language. In affected versions 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 scenarios 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. This vulnerability has been addressed in versions 2.7.0 and 2.2.23. 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, and 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 ```

Severity ?

8.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE

CWE-829 - Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere

Assigner

GitHub_M

References

URL

Tags

	https://github.com/composer/composer/security/adv…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	https://github.com/composer/composer/commit/64e4e…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	composer	composer	Affected: >= 2.0, < 2.2.23 Affected: >= 2.3, < 2.7

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

CVE-2024-24821 (GCVE-0-2024-24821)

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