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CVE-2017-9841

Published: Jun 27, 2017

Modified: Oct 21, 2025

PUBLISHED

Description

Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php in PHPUnit before 4.8.28 and 5.x before 5.6.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via HTTP POST data beginning with a "<?php " substring, as demonstrated by an attack on a site with an exposed /vendor folder, i.e., external access to the /vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php URI.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

vdb-entry

x_refsource_BID

vdb-entry

x_refsource_SECTRACK

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_GENTOO

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html

x_refsource_MISC

https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/commit/284a69fb88a2d0845d23f42974a583d8f59bf5a5

x_refsource_MISC

https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/pull/1956

x_refsource_MISC

http://web.archive.org/web/20170701212357/http://phpunit.vulnbusters.com/

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