New PHP Composer Flaws Enable Arbitrary Command Execution — Patches Released

2026-04-15T01:24:09Zffb6c4d2f9d0851952c210413babe0e4ebaa215eb2e62ff4759c829591b42c35
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What happened

A batch of high-impact security incidents and disclosures affecting open-source tooling, commercial products and supply chains. Key issues include newly disclosed Composer command-injection vulnerabilities (notably CVE-2026-40176) enabling arbitrary command execution in the Perforce VCS driver (patches released); multiple actively exploited RCEs such as ShowDoc CVE-2025-0520, Adobe Acrobat CVE-2026-34621, and Marimo CVE-2026-39987; CISA additions to the KEV list including CVE-2026-21643 (Fortinet FortiClient EMS SQLi); and several supply-chain and distribution compromises (CPUID trojanized CPU

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