PHP and Composer Support Is Now in Beta

Socket has moved its PHP and Composer security support from Experimental to Beta for all customers, adding generally available PHP reachability analysis for Team-tier customers and above. The platform scans composer.json and composer.lock files to provide dependency resolution, SBOM generation, direct and transitive dependency analysis, CVE context, malicious-package detection, development-dependency identification, multi-project repository support, and supply-chain campaign tracking. Socket cites recent threats across Packagist, including credential-stealing Composer plugins, malicious postinstall hooks, compromised Laravel-related packages, blockchain-based remote-code loaders, and packages disguised as Laravel utilities or CMS themes. Its reachability features assess whether vulnerable dependency functions can actually be invoked by an application: precomputed analysis works from Composer manifests and can dismiss roughly 60% of irrelevant transitive vulnerability findings, while full application analysis examines source and dependency code to trace call paths and potentially reduce false positives by up to 90%, including in frameworks that use dynamic PHP patterns.

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