GHSA-4574-qv3w-fcmg

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    GHSA-4574-qv3w-fcmg

    Published: 1 Sept 2021Last Modified: 10 Sept 2026

    Summary: Deserialization of Untrusted Data in codeception/codeception

    Details: This affects the package codeception/codeception from 4.0.0 before 4.1.22 and before 3.1.3. The RunProcess class can be leveraged as a gadget to run arbitrary commands on a system that is deserializing user input without validation.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-23420, https://github.com/Codeception/Codeception/pull/6241, https://github.com/Codeception/Codeception/commit/802a108057d250ee563120eaa5365a519afc0a71, https://github.com/Codeception/Codeception/commit/cbce9ea7f4664052fa1ac6b36f5b5a6dbd864d71, https://github.com/Codeception/Codeception, https://github.com/Codeception/Codeception/blob/4.1/CHANGELOG-4.x.md#4122, https://github.com/Codeception/Codeception/blob/4.1/ext/RunProcess.php#L52, https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/codeception/codeception/CVE-2021-23420.yaml, https://github.com/JinYiTong/poc, https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4574-qv3w-fcmg, https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PHP-CODECEPTIONCODECEPTION-1324585

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: codeception/codeception

    Purl: pkg:composer/codeception/codeception

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.1.3

    Affected versions

    1.0.10
    1.0.11
    1.0.12
    1.0.13
    1.0.14
    1.0.9

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
    GHSA-4574-qv3w-fcmg | CVE-DB