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SCA: security update for phpunit/phpunit (GHSA-qrr6-mg7r-m243)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 440653

Description

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

 - PHPUnit is a testing framework for PHP. In versions 12.5.21 and 13.1.5, PHPUnit forwards PHP INI settings
 to child processes (used for isolated/PHPT test execution) as -d name=value command-line arguments without
 neutralizing INI metacharacters. Because PHP's INI parser interprets " as a string delimiter, ; as the
 start of a comment, and most importantly a newline as a directive separator, a value containing a newline
 is parsed by the child process as multiple INI directives. An attacker able to influence a single INI
 value can therefore inject arbitrary additional directives into the child's configuration, including
 auto_prepend_file, extension, disable_functions, open_basedir, and others. Setting auto_prepend_file to an
 attacker-controlled path yields remote code execution in the child process. This issue has been patched in
 versions 12.5.22 and 13.1.6. (CVE-2026-41570)

Solution

Update the phpunit/phpunit library and its related packages to version 12.5.22 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qrr6-mg7r-m243

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 440653

Version: Revision 1.11

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 4/18/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.93

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-2026-41570

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: 4/18/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/18/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-41570