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Summary of Changes

This pull request (PR) updates the composer dependency "phpseclib/phpseclib" from version 3.0.51 to version 3.0.52 to fix one high severity security vulnerability reported by composer audit.

Release notes: https://github.com/phpseclib/phpseclib/releases/tag/3.0.52

It is the same as PR #47737 for 5.4-dev, but here for 6.1-dev to avoid ugly merge conflicts for the upmerge.

Testing Instructions

1. Run composer install and then composer audit.
2. Verify that there are no breaking changes done with this update by checking the release information listed above in the summary of changes.

Actual result BEFORE applying this Pull Request

1. Composer audit

Found 1 ignored security vulnerability advisory affecting 1 package:
+-------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Package           | web-auth/webauthn-lib                                                            |
| Severity          | medium                                                                           |
| Advisory ID       | PKSA-3mms-4n3p-ym65                                                              |
| CVE               | CVE-2024-39912                                                                   |
| Title             | The FIDO2/Webauthn Support for PHP library allows enumeration of valid usernames  |
| URL               | https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-875x-g8p7-5w27                                |
| Affected versions | >=4.5.0,<4.9.0                                                                   |
| Reported at       | 2024-07-15T16:37:49+00:00                                                        |
| Ignore reason     | Temporary until Webauthn plugin has been updated.                                |
+-------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Found 1 security vulnerability advisory affecting 1 package:
+-------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Package           | phpseclib/phpseclib                                                              |
| Severity          | high                                                                             |
| Advisory ID       | PKSA-smrh-yx37-92ws                                                              |
| CVE               | CVE-2026-44167                                                                   |
| Title             | phpseclib has a CVE-2024-27355 mitigation bypass — OID amplification DoS in      |
|                   | ASN1::decodeOID()                                                                |
| URL               | https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3qpq-r242-jqj7                                |
| Affected versions | >=3.0.0,<=3.0.51|>=2.0.0,<=2.0.53|>=0.0.11,<=1.0.28                              |
| Reported at       | 2026-05-05T21:17:57+00:00                                                        |
+-------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Found 1 abandoned package:
+---------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Abandoned Package         | Suggested Replacement                                                            |
+---------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| web-auth/metadata-service | web-auth/webauthn-lib                                                            |
+---------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

2. Not applicable.

Expected result AFTER applying this Pull Request

1. Composer audit

Found 1 ignored security vulnerability advisory affecting 1 package:
+-------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Package           | web-auth/webauthn-lib                                                            |
| Severity          | medium                                                                           |
| Advisory ID       | PKSA-3mms-4n3p-ym65                                                              |
| CVE               | CVE-2024-39912                                                                   |
| Title             | The FIDO2/Webauthn Support for PHP library allows enumeration of valid usernames  |
| URL               | https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-875x-g8p7-5w27                                |
| Affected versions | >=4.5.0,<4.9.0                                                                   |
| Reported at       | 2024-07-15T16:37:49+00:00                                                        |
| Ignore reason     | Temporary until Webauthn plugin has been updated.                                |
+-------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Found 1 abandoned package:
+---------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Abandoned Package         | Suggested Replacement                                                            |
+---------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| web-auth/metadata-service | web-auth/webauthn-lib                                                            |
+---------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

2. No breaking changes.

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