GMS-2023-164: symfont/process typosquatting malware spoofs symfony/process

January 26, 2023

In September 2021, security researchers discovered a malicious Composer package called symfont/process, a typosquat targeting users of symfony/process. The malicious package has since been removed from Packagist.

References

github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/symfont/process/2021-09-10.yaml
github.com/advisories/GHSA-g3j5-mpp2-2fqm
www.kernelmode.blog/typosquatting-malware-found-in-composer-repository/

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