User Enumeration Affecting symfony/security-http package, versions >=4.2.0, <4.2.12>=4.3.0, <4.3.8


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.23% (62nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PHP-SYMFONYSECURITYHTTP-535382
  • published22 Nov 2019
  • disclosed13 Nov 2019
  • creditMatt Daum

Introduced: 13 Nov 2019

CVE-2019-18886  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-203  (opens in a new tab)
First added by Snyk

How to fix?

Upgrade symfony/security-http to version 4.2.12, 4.3.8 or higher.

Overview

symfony/security-http is a provides an infrastructure for sophisticated authorization systems, which makes it possible to easily separate the actual authorization logic from so called user providers that hold the users credentials.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to User Enumeration. The ability to enumerate users was possible due to different handling depending on whether the user existed when making unauthorized attempts to use the switch users functionality.

CVSS Scores

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