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Fedora 38 : composer (2023-f3dedfef46)

high Nessus Plugin ID 183096

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-f3dedfef46 advisory.

 **Version 2.6.5** - 2023-10-06

 * Fixed error when vendor dir contains broken symlinks (#11670)
 * Fixed composer.lock missing from Composer's zip archives (#11674)
 * Fixed AutoloadGenerator::dump() non-BC signature change in 2.6.4 (cb363b0e8)



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 **Version 2.6.4** - 2023-09-29

 * Security: Fixed possible remote code execution vulnerability if composer.phar is publicly accessible, executable as PHP, and register_argc_argv is enabled in php.ini (GHSA-jm6m-4632-36hf / **CVE-2023-43655**)
 * Fixed json output of abandoned packages in audit command (#11647)
 * Performance improvement in pool optimization step (#11638)
 * Performance improvement in `show -a <packagename>` (#11659)



Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora 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://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-f3dedfef46

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 183096

File Name: fedora_2023-f3dedfef46.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/15/2023

Updated: 11/14/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-43655

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:composer, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:38

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/6/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/29/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-43655