{"id":51701,"date":"2019-02-07T13:00:42","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T19:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.cpanel.com\/?p=51701"},"modified":"2019-02-07T13:00:42","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T19:00:42","slug":"when-php-went-pear-shaped-the-php-pear-compromise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devel.www.cpanel.net\/blog\/products\/when-php-went-pear-shaped-the-php-pear-compromise\/","title":{"rendered":"When PHP Went Pear Shaped- The PHP PEAR Compromise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As you may or may not be aware, on January 19th, 2019, a security&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.pear.php.net\/\">announcement<\/a>&nbsp;was published confirming the compromise of the PHP Extension and Application Repository (PEAR) installation script. The PEAR project had the following statement to announce:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;A security breach has been found on the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/pear.php.net\/\">http:\/\/pear.php.net<\/a>&nbsp;webserver, with a tainted go-pear.phar discovered. The PEAR website itself has been disabled until a known clean site can be rebuilt. A more detailed announcement will be on the PEAR Blog once it\u2019s back online.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is PEAR?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/pear.php.net\/\">PEAR repository<\/a>&nbsp;(currently offline until the compromise can be remedied)&nbsp;is a site that holds host to a vast number of PHP projects where programmers and application developers use the go-pear script to download PHP class packages from the repository. This library of code was intended to promote a standard coding style. While community-driven, the PEAR project has a PEAR group acting as the governing body handling administrative tasks. A&nbsp;PEAR package is essentially a gzipped tar file consisting of source code written in PHP&nbsp;and can be readily used by developers as ordinary third-party code by way of include statements in PHP. Users could invoke the PEAR package manager from the command line via the&nbsp;<code>pear<\/code>&nbsp;command. For PHP installations running on Linux, the PEAR package manager is enabled by default.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">So what happened?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cpanel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/PEAR-perl-backdoor.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51705\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Speculated to have happened as far back as 6 months ago, a malicious user compromised the PEAR installation script with an extractor that enabled a backdoor (via Perl) that opened a shell connecting to a remote infected server. This allowed the malicious users to install apps, run malicious code, and capture sensitive data.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Should I be concerned?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re a user who has built your PHP RPMs from the PEAR website, there is a potential chance that your machine may have been compromised.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dcso.de\/\">DCSO<\/a>&nbsp;(a German cybersecurity organization) has published a MISP (Malware Information Sharing Platform) event with the relevant IOCs (indicators of compromise) that can be used to scan your infrastructure for infections:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><code>\u201cPHP PEAR Software Supply Chain Attack\u201d (5c46dd16-2ed0-4604-ab12-181cac12042b)<\/code><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>cPanel &amp; WHM users have nothing to fear, as we build our RPMs from GitHub, which does not pull in the compromised go-pear.phar archive to our RPMs. This means there are no indications that any cPanel RPMs containing PEAR packages are compromised.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For further updates from PEAR directly, we recommend following the official&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pear\">pear&nbsp;Twitter feed<\/a>. You can also join in the discussion by participating in our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/go.cpanel.net\/discord\">Discord<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/go.cpanel.net\/slack\">Slack<\/a>&nbsp;channels, as well as our official cPanel&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reddit.com\/r\/cpanel\">subreddit.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may or may not be aware, on January 19th, 2019, a security&nbsp;announcement&nbsp;was published confirming the compromise of the PHP Extension and Application Repository (PEAR) installation script. The PEAR project had the following statement to announce: &#8220;A security breach has been found on the&nbsp;http:\/\/pear.php.net&nbsp;webserver, with a tainted go-pear.phar discovered. 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