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Composer 2.9.6 fixes Perforce Driver Command Injection Vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-40261, CVE-2026-40176)

calendar_today April 14, 2026 person Nils Adermann domain packagist

Please immediately update Composer to version 2.9.6 or 2.2.27 (LTS) by running composer.phar self-update . The new releases include fixes for two command injection security vulnerabilities in the Perforce VCS driver, that also affected users without Perforce and not actively using the driver. CVE-2026-

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