CVE-2026-41570 (GCVE-0-2026-41570)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-05-08 14:33
Modified
2026-05-08 16:01
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CWE
Summary
PHPUnit is a testing framework for PHP. In versions 12.5.21 and 13.1.5, PHPUnit forwards PHP INI settings to child processes (used for isolated/PHPT test execution) as -d name=value command-line arguments without neutralizing INI metacharacters. Because PHP's INI parser interprets " as a string delimiter, ; as the start of a comment, and most importantly a newline as a directive separator, a value containing a newline is parsed by the child process as multiple INI directives. An attacker able to influence a single INI value can therefore inject arbitrary additional directives into the child's configuration, including auto_prepend_file, extension, disable_functions, open_basedir, and others. Setting auto_prepend_file to an attacker-controlled path yields remote code execution in the child process. This issue has been patched in versions 12.5.22 and 13.1.6.
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Impacted products
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| sebastianbergmann | phpunit |
Version: = 12.5.21 Version: = 13.1.5 |
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