Bug 1955727 (CVE-2021-29472)

Summary:	CVE-2021-29472 composer: Specifically crafted URL values allow code to be executed in the HgDriver
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	fedora, shawn
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2021-04-30 17:41:23 UTC

Composer is a dependency manager for PHP. URLs for Mercurial repositories in the root composer.json and package source download URLs are not sanitized correctly. Specifically crafted URL values allow code to be executed in the HgDriver if hg/Mercurial is installed on the system. The impact to Composer users directly is limited as the composer.json file is typically under their own control and source download URLs can only be supplied by third party Composer repositories they explicitly trust to download and execute source code from, e.g. Composer plugins. The main impact is to services passing user input to Composer, including Packagist.org and Private Packagist. This allowed users to trigger remote code execution. The vulnerability has been patched on Packagist.org and Private Packagist within 12h of receiving the initial vulnerability report and based on a review of logs, to the best of our knowledge, was not abused by anyone. Other services/tools using VcsRepository/VcsDriver or derivatives may also be vulnerable and should upgrade their composer/composer dependency immediately. Versions 1.10.22 and 2.0.13 include patches for this issue.

References:

https://getcomposer.org/
https://github.com/composer/composer/security/advisories/GHSA-h5h8-pc6h-jvvx

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2021-04-30 17:41:51 UTC

Created composer tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1955729]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1955728]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2021-04-30 22:46:36 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.