PHPUnit Remote Code Execution

Description

PHPUnit is a programmer-oriented testing framework for PHP. PHPUnit 4.x versions before 4.8.28 and 5.x versions before 5.6.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via HTTP POST data beginning with a <?php substring. This vulnerability is exploitable only if the /vendor folder is publicly accessible.

Remediation

Upgrade to the latest version of PHPUnit. This issue was fixed in PHPUnit versions 4.8.28 and 5.6.3.

References

Related Vulnerabilities

Severity

High

Classification

CVE-2017-9841 CWE-94 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Tags

Code Execution