Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting symfony package, versions <3.4.12+dfsg-1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.18% (57th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-SYMFONY-1560627
  • published13 Jun 2018
  • disclosed13 Jun 2018

Introduced: 13 Jun 2018

CVE-2018-12040  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 symfony to version 3.4.12+dfsg-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream symfony package and not the symfony package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

Reflected Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the web profiler in SensioLabs Symfony 3.3.6 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the "file" parameter, aka an _profiler/open?file= URI. NOTE: The vendor states "The XSS ... is in the web profiler, a tool that should never be deployed in production (so, we don't handle those issues as security issues).