CVE-2018-14773 Affecting symfony package, versions <3.4.14+dfsg-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
77.99% (99th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-SYMFONY-320997
  • published3 Aug 2018
  • disclosed3 Aug 2018

Introduced: 3 Aug 2018

CVE-2018-14773  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable symfony to version 3.4.14+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:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in Http Foundation in Symfony 2.7.0 through 2.7.48, 2.8.0 through 2.8.43, 3.3.0 through 3.3.17, 3.4.0 through 3.4.13, 4.0.0 through 4.0.13, and 4.1.0 through 4.1.2. It arises from support for a (legacy) IIS header that lets users override the path in the request URL via the X-Original-URL or X-Rewrite-URL HTTP request header. These headers are designed for IIS support, but it's not verified that the server is in fact running IIS, which means anybody who can send these requests to an application can trigger this. This affects \Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request::prepareRequestUri() where X-Original-URL and X_REWRITE_URL are both used. The fix drops support for these methods so that they cannot be used as attack vectors such as web cache poisoning.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1