{"id":3695,"date":"2026-04-14T15:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infosec-daily.com\/?page_id=3695"},"modified":"2026-04-14T15:57:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:57:00","slug":"new-php-composer-flaws-enable-arbitrary-command-execution-patches-released","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/infosec-daily.com\/?page_id=3695","title":{"rendered":"New PHP Composer Flaws Enable Arbitrary Command Execution \u2014 Patches Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two high-severity security vulnerabilities\u00a0have been disclosed in Composer, a package\u00a0manager for\u00a0PHP, that, if successfully exploited, could result in arbitrary command execution.<br \/>\nThe vulnerabilities\u00a0have been\u00a0described as command injection flaws affecting the Perforce VCS (version control software) driver. Details of the two flaws are below\u00a0&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>CVE-2026-40176 (CVSS<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two high-severity security vulnerabilities\u00a0have been disclosed in Composer, a package\u00a0manager for\u00a0PHP, that, if successfully exploited, could result in arbitrary command execution. The vulnerabilities\u00a0have been\u00a0described as command injection flaws affecting the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3696,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3695","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"kubio_ai_page_context":{"short_desc":"","purpose":"general"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infosec-daily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infosec-daily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infosec-daily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infosec-daily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infosec-daily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infosec-daily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infosec-daily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infosec-daily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}