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SCA: security update for composer/composer (GHSA-jm6m-4632-36hf)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 416451

Description

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

 - 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. (CVE-2023-43655)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jm6m-4632-36hf

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 416451

Version: Revision 1.15

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-43655

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/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: 9/29/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/29/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-43655

cwe: CWE-74