Risk Letters

Exploited vulnerability

CVE-2017-9841

TLP:CLEAR

PHPUnit Command Injection Vulnerability

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.

Facts

  • Vendor: PHPUnit
  • Product: PHPUnit
  • CVSS: 9.8
  • EPSS (probability of exploitation within 30 days): 100 %
  • On CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list since: 15 February 2022
  • First known exploitation: 15 February 2022
  • CISA's deadline for US federal agencies: 15 August 2022
  • Weakness: CWE-94
  • First seen by Risk Letters: 15 February 2022

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Data: NVD (public domain), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, MITRE ATT&CK, AlienVault OTX. NVD