Improper Authentication Affecting symfony/symfony package, versions >=5.3.0, <5.3.12
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EPSS
0.13% (50th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-PHP-SYMFONYSYMFONY-2434844
- published 24 Nov 2021
- disclosed 24 Nov 2021
- credit Thibaut Decherit, Wouter J
Introduced: 24 Nov 2021
CVE-2021-41268 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade symfony/symfony to version 5.3.12 or higher.
Overview
symfony/symfony is a PHP framework for web applications and a set of reusable PHP components.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Authentication since the remember me cookie is not invalidated anymore after the user changes its password.
Attackers can maintain their access to the account even if the password is changed as long as they have had the chance to login once and get a valid remember me cookie.
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