[GHSA-qrr6-mg7r-m243] PHPUnit has Argument injection via newline in PHP INI values that are forwarded to child processes

[sebastianbergmann]

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• Affected products

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As I configured in GHSA-qrr6-mg7r-m243, only the two versions 12.5.21 and 13.1.5 are affected. Not the version ranges (<= 12.5.21, >= 13.0.0, <= 13.1.5) you published here.

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[sebastianbergmann]

Hi there @sebastianbergmann! A community member has suggested an improvement to your security advisory.

The community member who suggested an improvement is me.

On GHSA-qrr6-mg7r-m243, I see the correct information:

On GHSA-qrr6-mg7r-m243, I see incorrect information:

Please correct the information and, if possible, explain how it was possible to publish incorrect information.

Thank you.

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Pull request overview

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Updates the OSV advisory for GHSA-qrr6-mg7r-m243 to reflect that only two discrete PHPUnit versions are affected (12.5.21 and 13.1.5), aligning with the upstream advisory clarification.

Changes:

• Narrowed the affected ranges to only include 12.5.21 (fixed in 12.5.22) and 13.1.5 (fixed in 13.1.6)
• Removed database_specific.last_known_affected_version_range entries
• Bumped the modified timestamp

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[taladrane]

👋 @sebastianbergmann thank you for letting us know about this! I've gone ahead and corrected the advisory.

if possible, explain how it was possible to publish incorrect information.

this is a result of our curation efforts > when an operator is not included in the vulnerable version range of a repository GitHub Security Advisory (i.e. 12.5.21 as opposed to = 12.5.21), we typically infer it to mean "this version and all prior versions are affected" since that's typically what's meant by many repo GHSA authors when they do not include an operator for a vulnerable version range. the simplest way to prevent this from happening again is to include an explicit operator in your vulnerable version ranges - our documentation covers this quite well! this inference can of course be incorrect at times, and we do our best to verify that prior to publishing, but situations like this are exactly why this feedback repository exists, so thank you for your contribution!