Path Disclosure Affecting symfony/http-foundation package, versions >=2.0.0, <2.0.19


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.22% (45th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PHP-SYMFONYHTTPFOUNDATION-70176
  • published19 Mar 2012
  • disclosed19 Mar 2012
  • creditManuele Menozzi

Introduced: 19 Mar 2012

CVE-2012-6431  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade symfony/http-foundation to version 2.0.19 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of symfony/http-foundation are vulnerable to Path Disclosure.

On the Symfony 2.0.x version, there's a security issue that allows access to routes protected by a firewall even when the user is not logged in.

Both the Routing component and the Security component uses the path returned by getPathInfo() to match a Request. The getPathInfo() returns a decoded path, but the Routing component (Symfony\Component\Routing\Matcher\UrlMatcher) decodes the path a second time; whereas the Security component, Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\RequestMatcher, does not

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1