CVE-2020-4043Phar unserialization vulnerability in phpMussel
- 7.7HighCVSS base score
- 2.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 14% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
phpMussel from versions 1.0.0 and less than 1.6.0 has an unserialization vulnerability in PHP's phar wrapper. Uploading a specially crafted file to an affected version allows arbitrary code execution (discovered, tested, and confirmed by myself), so the risk factor should be regarded as very high. Newer phpMussel versions don't use PHP's phar wrapper, and are therefore unaffected. This has been fixed in version 1.6.0.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 5 months later
· 5 months later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.6% · top 14% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.7.
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Packagistmaikuolan/phpmusselGHSA-qr95-4mq5-r3fh (opens in a new tab)
- Packagistphpmussel/phpmusselGHSA-qr95-4mq5-r3fh (opens in a new tab)
References
References5
- https://github.com/phpMussel/phpMussel/security/advisories/GHSA-qr95-4mq5-r3fh (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/phpMussel/phpMussel/issues/167 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/phpMussel/phpMussel/pull/173 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/phpMussel/phpMussel/commit/97f25973433921c1f953430f32d3081adc4851a4 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/phpMussel/phpMussel/security/policy#currently-known-vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2020-0510 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-qr95-4mq5-r3fh (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2020-4043)Record last updated .