Snuffleupagus vulnerable to RCE on instances with upload validation enabled but without the VLD package
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- Present
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
Snuffleupagus is a module that raises the cost of attacks against website by killing bug classes and providing a virtual patching system. On deployments of Snuffleupagus prior to version 0.13.0 with the non-default upload validation feature enabled and configured to use one of the upstream validation scripts based on Vulcan Logic Disassembler (VLD) while the VLD extension is not available to the CLI SAPI, all files from multipart POST requests are evaluated as PHP code. The issue was fixed in version 0.13.0.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA snuffleupagus (jvoisin) Fixed in 0.13.0
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-22034
References
Other 6
- https://github.com/jvoisin/snuffleupagus/blob/9278dc77bab2a219e770a1b31dd6797bc9070e37/src/sp_upload_validation.c#L92-L100
- https://github.com/jvoisin/snuffleupagus/blob/v0.12.0/scripts/upload_validation.php
- https://github.com/jvoisin/snuffleupagus/blob/v0.12.0/scripts/upload_validation.py
- https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/e4098da58a9eaee759d728d98a27d809cde37671/ext/standard/dl.c#L165-L166
- https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/e4098da58a9eaee759d728d98a27d809cde37671/main/rfc1867.c#L1269-L1274
- https://snuffleupagus.readthedocs.io/config.html#upload-validation
Sources
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