CVE-2026-59944

composer: Composer is a dependency Manager for the PHP language

CVE-2026-59944 is fixed in 2 products on 1 platform, first by DEBIAN-CVE-2026-59944, released September 2, 2026. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: Routine.

Routine
CVSS
6.1
medium
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0047
40th percentile

Composer is a dependency Manager for the PHP language. From 1.0 until 2.2.30 and from 2.3.0 until 2.10.3, a malicious or compromised dependency can bypass the earlier CVE-2026-59946 binary-path hardening because Composer validates literal parent-directory segments only during dependency resolution, while the symlink and installed-metadata paths described by the advisory skip that validation. A package can ship an in-package binary symlink that resolves outside its installation directory, or attacker-influenced vendor/composer/installed.json metadata can provide an escaping binary path during a reinstall or regeneration of missing vendor/bin entries. The installed-metadata path is reachable only when the vendor directory was not populated by the same validated install run, such as when it is restored from an untrusted cache, copied from an earlier build stage, carried over from an older Composer run, or writable by a lower-trust build step. Composer can follow the path, change the external target's permissions to make it world-readable and executable, and create a runnable vendor/bin proxy to that external file. The issue does not directly read or transmit data and does not by itself provide remote code execution. This issue is fixed in versions 2.2.30 and 2.10.3.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Linux
composer · Debian 14 2.10.3-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-59944 Sep 2, 2026
composer · amzn 2023 2.10.3-1.amzn2023.0.1 ALAS2023-2026-3136 Sep 28, 2026
php-composer2 · opensuse-leap 16.0 2.8.9-160000.6.1 OPENSUSE-SU-2026:21970-1 Sep 29, 2026
php-composer2 · sles 15.7 2.6.4-150600.3.23.1 SUSE-SU-2026:4288-1 Sep 22, 2026
php-composer2 · sles 16.0 2.8.9-160000.6.1 SUSE-SU-2026:23943-1 Sep 29, 2026

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