Fedora 40 : composer (2024-9ed24c98cd)

high Nessus Plugin ID 200747

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 40 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-9ed24c98cd advisory.

**Version 2.7.7** 2024-06-10

* Security: Fixed command injection via malicious git branch name (GHSA-47f6-5gq3-vx9c /
**CVE-2024-35241**)
* Security: Fixed multiple command injections via malicious git/hg branch names (GHSA-v9qv-c7wm-wgmf /
**CVE-2024-35242**)
* Fixed PSR violations for classes not matching the namespace of a rule being hidden, this may lead to new violations being shown (#11957)
* Fixed UX when a plugin is still in vendor dir but is not required nor allowed anymore after changing branches (#12000)
* Fixed new platform requirements from composer.json not being checked if the lock file is outdated (#12001)
* Fixed secure-http checks that could be bypassed by using malformed URL formats (fa3b9582c)
* Fixed Filesystem::isLocalPath including windows-specific checks on linux (3c37a67c)
* Fixed perforce argument escaping (3773f775)
* Fixed handling of zip bombs when extracting archives (de5f7e32)
* Fixed Windows command parameter escaping to prevent abuse of unicode characters with best fit encoding conversion (3130a7455, 04a63b324)
* Fixed ability for `config` command to remove autoload keys (#11967)
* Fixed empty `type` support in `init` command (#11999)
* Fixed git clone errors when `safe.bareRepository` is set to `strict` in the git config (#11969)
* Fixed regression showing network errors on PHP <8.1 (#11974)
* Fixed some color bleed from a few warnings (#11972)





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-2024-9ed24c98cd

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 200747

File Name: fedora_2024-9ed24c98cd.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/19/2024

Updated: 8/7/2024

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: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-35242

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:composer, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:40

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/11/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/10/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-35241, CVE-2024-35242