CVE-2017-9841 — PHPUnit Command Injection Vulnerability

provenance: imported · CVE: CVE-2017-9841

CVE-2017-9841: PHPUnit Command Injection Vulnerability

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV)


Vendor / project	PHPUnit
Product	PHPUnit
Date added	2022-02-15
Due date	2022-08-15
Ransomware campaign use	Unknown

Description

PHPUnit 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.

Required action (CISA)

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Notes

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9841

References

NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9841
KEV catalog: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog