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UBUNTU-CVE-2023-43655 (CVE-2023-43655)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2023-09-29 20:15 – Updated: 2025-10-24 05:02 – Source website
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Details

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 make sure register_argc_argv is disabled in php.ini, and avoid publishing composer.phar to the web as this is not best practice.

Severity
6.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
References
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  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "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 make sure `register_argc_argv` is disabled in php.ini, and avoid publishing composer.phar to the web as this is not best practice.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2023-43655",
  "modified": "2025-10-24T05:02:17Z",
  "published": "2023-09-29T20:15:00Z",
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      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-43655"
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}



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