CVE Request: Insufficient TLS Protection in Composer (PHP)

[Pádraic Brady <padraic.brady () gmail com>]

Hi all,

A brief update to clarify this is a CVE request in the subject line
and copy the guys at MITRE. Also to clarify that this vulnerability
occurs from relying the PHP openssl extensions default configuration.
That default configuration disables peer verification on PHP versions
less than PHP 5.6 (when it was significantly reworked to be more
secure by default).

On 25 April 2015 at 19:49, Pádraic Brady <padraic.brady () gmail com> wrote:
> My I request a CVE ID for the following, which is a publicly disclosed
> unpatched vulnerability on Composer's issue tracker since 2012.
> Composer is an open source package manager for PHP. The specific issue
> pertaining to this request is a failure to perform TLS peer
> verification on remote requests when making any API request or
> retrieving any file, i.e. there is a singular client class.
>
> Ref: https://github.com/composer/composer/issues/1074
>
> Kind regards,
> Paddy
>
> --
> Pádraic Brady

Kind regards,
Paddy

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