Authentication Bypass Affecting symfony/http-foundation package, versions >=2.3.0, <2.3.19 >=2.1.0, <2.2.0 >=2.4.0, <2.4.9 >=2.5.0, <2.5.4 >=2.2.0, <2.3.0 >=2.0.0, <2.1.0


0.0
low

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity High

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PHP-SYMFONYHTTPFOUNDATION-70179
  • published 3 Sep 2014
  • disclosed 3 Sep 2014
  • credit Damien Tournoud

How to fix?

Upgrade symfony/http-foundation to version 2.3.19, 2.2.0, 2.4.9, 2.5.4, 2.3.0, 2.1.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of symfony/http-foundation are vulnerable to Authentication Bypass.

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.)