# CVE-2025-22145: Carbon has an arbitrary file include via unvalidated input passed to Carbon::setLocale

- Also known as: GHSA-J3F9-P6HM-5W6Q
- Severity: CVSS 6.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.72.6, 3.8.4
- Published: 2025-01-08 · Updated: 2025-02-25

## Affected

- CarbonPHP carbon: fixed in 2.72.6; from 3.0.0, fixed in 3.8.4
- nesbot/carbon (Packagist): from 3.0.0, fixed in 3.8.4
- nesbot/carbon (Packagist): fixed in 2.72.6

## Description

Carbon is an international PHP extension for DateTime. Application passing unsanitized user input to Carbon::setLocale are at risk of arbitrary file include, if the application allows users to upload files with .php extension in an folder that allows include or require to read it, then they are at risk of arbitrary code ran on their servers. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.8.4 and 2.72.6.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on CarbonPHP carbon, nesbot/carbon, upgrade to a fixed version (2.72.6, 3.8.4) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/CarbonPHP/carbon/security/advisories/GHSA-j3f9-p6hm-5w6q
- https://github.com/briannesbitt/Carbon/commit/129700ed449b1f02d70272d2ac802357c8c30c58

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