CVE-2024-24821

CVSS 3.1 Score 7.8 of 10 (high)

Details

Published Feb 9, 2024
Updated: Feb 16, 2024
CWE ID 829

Summary

CVE-2024-24821 is a vulnerability affecting Composer, a dependency manager for the PHP language. The vulnerability allows for arbitrary code execution and local privilege escalation when Composer is invoked within a directory with tampered files. This poses a high risk in scenarios such as running Composer with sudo, executing Composer on untrusted projects in pipelines, and shared environments with developers running Composer individually on the same project. The vulnerability has been addressed in versions 2.7.0 and 2.2.23 of Composer, and it is recommended to apply the patched versions as soon as possible. To mitigate the vulnerability, sudo composer privileges should be removed for all users if patching is not feasible. The severity of this vulnerability is rated as HIGH with a base score of 7.8 according to NIST's Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).

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