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medium 5.3

CVE-2014-6061 json

Symfony has a security issue when parsing the Authorization header

published 2y ago modified 2y ago also GHSA-h7v2-2qwg-h829

cvss
5.3
version 3.1, GitHub
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
—
no EPSS score yet
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

All 2.0.X, 2.1.X, 2.2.X, 2.3.X, 2.4.X, and 2.5.X versions of the Symfony HttpFoundation component are affected by this security issue.

This issue has been fixed in Symfony 2.3.19, 2.4.9, and 2.5.4. Note that no fixes are provided for Symfony 2.0, 2.1, and 2.2 as they are not maintained anymore.

### Description When an application uses an HTTP basic or digest authentication, Symfony does not parse the `Authorization` header properly, which could be exploited in some server setups (no exploits have been demonstrated though.)

### Resolution The parsing of the `Authorization` header has been fixed to comply to the HTTP specification.

The patch for this issue is available here: https://github.com/symfony/symfony/pull/11829

Patch / fix

  • packagist symfony/http-foundation 2.3.19, 2.4.9, 2.5.4
  • packagist symfony/symfony 2.3.19, 2.4.9, 2.5.4

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CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
GitHub 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
packagist symfony/http-foundation
>=2.0.0, <2.3.19
>=2.4.0, <2.4.9
>=2.5.0, <2.5.4
2.3.19
2.4.9
2.5.4
packagist symfony/symfony
>=2.0.0, <2.3.19
>=2.4.0, <2.4.9
>=2.5.0, <2.5.4
2.3.19
2.4.9
2.5.4

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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