ALPINE-CVE-2023-43655

Source
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2023-43655
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2023-43655.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/ALPINE-CVE-2023-43655
Upstream
Published
2023-09-29T20:15:09Z
Modified
2026-11-03T06:32:43Z
Severity
  • 8.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Alpine:v3.18
composer

Package

Name
composer
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/composer?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
2.0.0
Fixed
2.6.4-r0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2023-43655.json"
Alpine:v3.19
composer

Package

Name
composer
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/composer?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
2.0.0
Fixed
2.6.4-r0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2023-43655.json"
Alpine:v3.20
composer

Package

Name
composer
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/composer?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
2.0.0
Fixed
2.6.4-r0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2023-43655.json"
Alpine:v3.21
composer

Package

Name
composer
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/composer?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
2.0.0
Fixed
2.6.4-r0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2023-43655.json"
Alpine:v3.22
composer

Package

Name
composer
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/composer?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
2.0.0
Fixed
2.6.4-r0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2023-43655.json"
Alpine:v3.23
composer

Package

Name
composer
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/composer?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
2.0.0
Fixed
2.6.4-r0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2023-43655.json"
Alpine:v3.24
composer

Package

Name
composer
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/composer?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
2.0.0
Fixed
2.6.4-r0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2023-43655.json"