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SCA: security update for phpunit/phpunit (GHSA-r7c9-c69m-rph8)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 418561

Description

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

 - Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php in PHPUnit before 4.8.28 and 5.x before 5.6.3 allows remote attackers to execute
 arbitrary PHP code via HTTP POST data beginning with a "<?php " substring, as demonstrated by an attack on
 a site with an exposed /vendor folder, i.e., external access to the
 /vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php URI. (CVE-2017-9841)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-r7c9-c69m-rph8

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 418561

Version: Revision 1.12

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/13/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

Percentile: 99.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-9841

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/26/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/27/2017

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 8/15/2022

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-9841

BID: 101798

cwe: CWE-94