GHSA-5wxr-w449-57cmMediumCVSS 5.9Disclosed before NVD

Setup PHP: GitHub tokens configured by setup-php may be exposed through pinned affected Composer versions

Published
May 20, 2026
Last Modified
May 20, 2026

📋 Description

### Impact This affects only workflows that pin an exact affected Composer semver version through setup-php, for example `tools: composer:2.9.7`. Workflows using the default Composer version, `composer:v2`, or no pinned Composer version are not affected through setup-php, because those Composer URLs have been updated to patched Composer releases for all setup-php versions. setup-php does not directly print the token. The token may be exposed through Composer when Composer validates github-oauth auth and rejects GitHub's newer hyphen-containing token format. Public repository logs may expose the token. GitHub-hosted runner GITHUB_TOKEN values expire after the job, but exposure may still matter during the token lifetime and for longer-lived GitHub App or user tokens. ### Patches setup-php 2.37.1 skips generated GitHub OAuth auth for pinned Composer versions affected by Composer GHSA-f9f8-rm49-7jv2 while preserving other Composer auth, including Packagist auth. ### Workarounds Upgrade to setup-php `2.37.1` or newer. You can also avoid the affected path by using a patched Composer version: 2.9.8, 2.2.28, 1.10.28, or newer supported Composer releases. It is recommended to avoid pinning affected Composer versions such as `composer:2.9.7`, unless you have automations to do timely updates in your workflows.

🎯 Affected products1

  • actions/shivammathur/setup-php:< 2.37.1

🔗 References (4)