<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="201711-15"> <title>PHPUnit: Remote code execution</title> <synopsis>A vulnerability was discovered in PHPUnit which may allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary PHP code. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">PHPUnit</product> <announced>2017-11-19</announced> <revised count="1">2017-11-19</revised> <bug>635356</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="dev-php/phpunit" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">5.7.15-r1</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">5.7.15-r1</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p>PHPUnit is a programmer-oriented testing framework for PHP. It is an instance of the xUnit architecture for unit testing frameworks. </p> </background> <description> <p>When PHPUnit is installed in a production environment via composer and these modules are in a web accessible directory, the eval-stdin.php file in PHPUnit contains vulnerable statements that trigger the vulnerability. </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p>A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary PHP code or cause a Denial of Service condition. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p>There are several ways to fix or mitigate this vulnerability:</p> <p>Remove PHPUnit from the production environment.</p> <p>Update PHPUnit.</p> <p>Manually apply the patch.</p> <p>Disable direct access to the composer packages by placing .htaccess file to /vendor folder. </p> </workaround> <resolution> <p>All PHPUnit users should upgrade to the latest version:</p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-php/phpunit-5.7.15-r1" </code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-9841"> CVE-2017-9841 </uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-11-14T01:26:48Z">jmbailey</metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-11-19T20:43:04Z">jmbailey</metadata> </glsa>