Composer is a dependency manager for the PHP programming language. Integrators using Composer code to call `VcsDriver::getFileContent` can have a code injection vulnerability if the user can control the `$file` or `$identifier` argument. This leads to a vulnerability on packagist.org for example where the composer.json's `readme` field can be used as a vector for injecting parameters into hg/Mercurial via the `$file` argument, or git via the `$identifier` argument if you allow arbitrary data there (Packagist does not, but maybe other integrators do). Composer itself should not be affected by the vulnerability as it does not call `getFileContent` with arbitrary data into `$file`/`$identifier`. To the best of our knowledge this was not abused, and the vulnerability has been patched on packagist.org and Private Packagist within a day of the vulnerability report.
| Package (Ecosystem) | Introduced | Fixed | Limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| composer/composer(Packagist) | 0 | 1.10.26 | N/A |
| composer/composer(Packagist) | 2.0 | 2.2.12 | N/A |
| composer/composer(Packagist) | 2.3 | 2.3.5 | N/A |
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