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SCA: security update for composer/composer (GHSA-7c6p-848j-wh5h)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 411985

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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 ``` (CVE-2024-24821)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7c6p-848j-wh5h

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 411985

Version: Revision 1.9

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 6/1/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.85

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-24821

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/8/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/8/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-24821

cwe: CWE-829