Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting symfony/mime package, versions >=4.3.0, <4.3.8


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.67% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PHP-SYMFONYMIME-535379
  • published22 Nov 2019
  • disclosed13 Nov 2019
  • creditIvan Novikov

Introduced: 13 Nov 2019

CVE-2019-18888  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade symfony/mime to version 4.3.8 or higher.

Overview

symfony/mime is a library to manipulate MIME messages.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution. Provided file paths were not being properly escaped before being used in the FileBinaryMimeTypeGuesser resulting in potential argument injection through the provided $path variable.

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