Access Restriction Bypass Affecting symfony/symfony package, versions >=3.0.0, <3.0.6>=2.8.0, <2.8.6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.48% (76th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PHP-SYMFONYSYMFONY-70221
  • published9 May 2016
  • disclosed9 May 2016
  • creditMatteo Rossi

Introduced: 9 May 2016

CVE-2016-2403  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade symfony/symfony to version 3.0.6, 2.8.6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of symfony/symfony are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass.

Symfony before 2.8.6 and 3.x before 3.0.6 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication by logging in with an empty password and valid username, which triggers an unauthenticated bind.

CVSS Scores

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