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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS : Composer vulnerabilities (USN-7603-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 241064

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7603-1 advisory.

 Thomas Chauchefoin discovered that Composer did not correctly handle certain arguments. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-24828, CVE-2023-43655)

 Ed Cradock discovered that Composer did not correctly handle the exclusion of certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
 (CVE-2024-24821)

 Martin Haunschmid discovered that Composer did not correctly handle git branch names. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2024-35241)

 Maciej Piechota discovered that Composer did not correctly handle VCS branch names. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2024-35242)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected composer package.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7603-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 241064

File Name: ubuntu_USN-7603-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/1/2025

Updated: 7/1/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-24828

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-43655

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:composer, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/30/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/13/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-24828, CVE-2023-43655, CVE-2024-24821, CVE-2024-35241, CVE-2024-35242

USN: 7603-1