Skip to main content
← All vulnerabilities
CVE-2026-54133GHSA-PCW8-M77R-2528

jmespath.php has CompilerRuntime code injection via unescaped function names

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 2.9.1
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: total

Summary

jmespath.php allows users to use JMESPath, software for declaratively specifying how to extract elements from a JSON document, in PHP applications with PHP data structures. Versions prior to 2.9.1 can generate and execute attacker-controlled PHP code when `JmesPath\CompilerRuntime` is used with an attacker-controlled JMESPath expression. The compiler emits parsed JMESPath function names into generated PHP source without sufficient escaping. A crafted expression can cause the generated cache file to contain executable attacker-controlled PHP, which is then loaded by the compiler runtime. The issue is patched in `2.9.1` and later. As a workaround, disable `JP_PHP_COMPILE` and do not use `JmesPath\CompilerRuntime` with attacker-controlled expressions. Use the default `AstRuntime` for untrusted expressions. Applications that must continue accepting untrusted JMESPath expressions before upgrading should ensure those expressions are never evaluated by the compiler runtime.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: poc · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • jmespath jmespath.php

    fixed in 2.9.1

  • mtdowling/jmespath.phpPackagist

    fixed in 2.9.1

References 1

GitHub · jmespath/jmespath.php