VulnerabilityAnalyzed
CVE-2017-9841
PHPUnit Command Injection Vulnerability
KEVCRITICAL 9.8EPSS 100.0%
Does this matter?
Known to be exploited in the wild (CISA KEV, CISA remediation deadline 15 August 2022). Treat as an emergency change: patch or isolate now, then hunt for prior compromise.
Description
Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php in PHPUnit before 4.8.28 and 5.x before 5.6.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via HTTP POST data beginning with a "<?php " substring, as demonstrated by an attack on a site with an exposed /vendor folder, i.e., external access to the /vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php URI.
- CVSS 3.1
- 9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 100.00% probability · 100th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Listed 15 February 2022 · due 15 August 2022
- Weakness
- CWE-94
- Affected
- phpunit project/phpunit · oracle/communications diameter signaling router
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
CISA notes
Apply updates per vendor instructions. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9841
References
- http://web.archive.org/web/20170701212357/http://phpunit.vulnbusters.com/Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101798Broken Link
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039812Broken Link
- https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/commit/284a69fb88a2d0845d23f42974a583d8f59bf5a5Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/pull/1956Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-15Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
- http://web.archive.org/web/20170701212357/http://phpunit.vulnbusters.com/Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101798Broken Link
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039812Broken Link
- https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/commit/284a69fb88a2d0845d23f42974a583d8f59bf5a5Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/pull/1956Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-15Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2017-9841US Government Resource
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.