Authentication Bypass Affecting symfony/security-http package, versions >=5.3.0, <5.4.47>=6.0.0-BETA1, <6.4.15>=7.0.0-BETA1, <7.1.8


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PHP-SYMFONYSECURITYHTTP-8378053
  • published14 Nov 2024
  • disclosed13 Nov 2024
  • creditMoritz Rauch - Pentryx AG

Introduced: 13 Nov 2024

CVE-2024-51996  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-287  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade symfony/security-http to version 5.4.47, 6.4.15, 7.1.8 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 Authentication Bypass via the consumeRememberMeCookie function due to improper validation between the username persisted in the database and the username attached to the cookie.

CVSS Scores

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