# CVE-2022-23614: Code injection in Twig

- Also known as: GHSA-5MV2-RX3Q-4W2V
- Severity: CVSS 8.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 2 GitHub repos listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Fixed in: 3.3.8, 2.14.11
- Published: 2022-02-04 · Updated: 2025-04-23

## Affected

- twigphp Twig: from 3.0.0, fixed in 3.3.8; from 2.0.0, fixed in 2.14.11
- twig/twig (Packagist): from 2.0.0, fixed in 2.14.11
- twig/twig (Packagist): from 3.0.0, fixed in 3.3.8

## Description

Twig is an open source template language for PHP. When in a sandbox mode, the `arrow` parameter of the `sort` filter must be a closure to avoid attackers being able to run arbitrary PHP functions. In affected versions this constraint was not properly enforced and could lead to code injection of arbitrary PHP code. Patched versions now disallow calling non Closure in the `sort` filter as is the case for some other filters. Users are advised to upgrade.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on twigphp Twig, twig/twig, upgrade to a fixed version (3.3.8, 2.14.11) per the references below.
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## Related

- Browse: [Packagist packages](https://cve.now/ecosystem/packagist.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/twigphp/Twig/security/advisories/GHSA-5mv2-rx3q-4w2v
- https://github.com/twigphp/Twig/commit/22b9dc3c03ee66d7e21d9ed2ca76052b134cb9e9
- https://github.com/twigphp/Twig/commit/2eb33080558611201b55079d07ac88f207b466d5
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OTN4273U4RHVIXED64T7DSMJ3VYTPRE7/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PECHIY2XLWUH2WLCNPDGNFMPHPRPCEDZ/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/I2PVV5DUTRUECTIHMTWRI5Z7DVNYQ2YO/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SIGZCFSYLPP7UVJ4E4NLHSOQSKYNXSAD/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5107
- https://github.com/4rtamis/CVE-2022-23614
- https://github.com/davwwwx/CVE-2022-23614

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