CVE-2021-41116 HIGH

CVE-2021-41116: Command injection in composer on Windows

Vendor Composer
Product composer
Weakness CWE-77
Published October 5, 2021
Last update August 4, 2024
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CVSS base score

8.2/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Confidentiality High
Integrity Low

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

October 5, 2021 CVE published
August 4, 2024 Record updated