🛡️ CVE-2022-24828 on Debian — composer

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
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CVSS Score
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Description

Composer is a dependency manager for the PHP programming language. Integrators using Composer code to call VcsDriver::getFileContent can have a code injection vulnerability if the user can control the $file or $identifier argument. This leads to a vulnerability on packagist.org for example where the composer.json's readme field can be used as a vector for injecting parameters into hg/Mercurial via the $file argument, or git via the $identifier argument if you allow arbitrary data there (Packagist does not, but maybe other integrators do). Composer itself should not be affected by the vulnerability as it does not call getFileContent with arbitrary data into $file/$identifier. To the best of our knowledge this was not abused, and the vulnerability has been patched on packagist.org and Private Packagist within a day of the vulnerability report.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2022-24828 as tracked by Debian, for the package composer. The fix is available in version 2.2.12-1; earlier versions remain affected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

DEBIAN-CVE-2022-24828 is classified as CWE-20: Improper Input Validation. The application accepts input without checking that it has the expected form, so malformed values reach code that assumes they are well formed.

Affected software

DEBIAN-CVE-2022-24828 is recorded against 1 package.

  • composer (fixed in 2.2.12-1)

Timeline and source

Published on 13 April 2022 and last revised on 4 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

security-tracker.debian.org (Advisory)

CVE-2022-24828 on other distributions

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-04-13
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-08-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
composer — 2.2.12-1

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