Vendor Phpunit Phpunit Src Util Php Eval-stdin.php Cve [ RELIABLE × 2027 ]
Context on PHPUnit Vulnerability
If a project includes PHPUnit as a dependency (stored in the vendor directory) and that directory is publicly accessible via a web server, an attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request to execute arbitrary PHP code on the server.
find vendor/phpunit -name "eval-stdin.php" vendor phpunit phpunit src util php eval-stdin.php cve
file_get_contents('php://input')reads the raw HTTP POST body.- The script then prepends
?>(a PHP closing tag) to the raw input and passes the entire string toeval().
- produce shell scripts to scan and remove instances across servers,
- provide a CI/CD snippet to exclude dev deps and strip files,
- draft a short incident notification for internal teams.
folder of a web application is publicly accessible from the internet. They can send a malicious request to the file with a body beginning with , followed by commands like system("id"); phpinfo(); CVE Details Context on PHPUnit Vulnerability If a project includes
, a popular unit testing framework for PHP. This flaw allows attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code on a server if the directory is publicly accessible. Vulnerability Details Vulnerability Name: CVE-2017-9841 Root Cause: src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php file_get_contents('php://input') and passed that raw input directly into an Exploit Method: produce shell scripts to scan and remove instances
