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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2017-16790 EUVD-2022-3618GHSA-cqqh-94r6-wjrg

Symfony SSRF Vulnerability via Form Component

Published Aug 6, 2018 · Updated Aug 5, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

An issue was discovered in Symfony before 2.7.38, 2.8.31, 3.2.14, 3.3.13, 3.4-BETA5, and 4.0-BETA5. When a form is submitted by the user, the request handler classes of the Form component merge POST data and uploaded files data into one array. This big array forms the data that are then bound to the form. At this stage there is no difference anymore between submitted POST data and uploaded files. A user can send a crafted HTTP request where the value of a "FileType" is sent as normal POST data that could be interpreted as a local file path on the server-side (for example, "file:///etc/passwd"). If the application did not perform any additional checks about the value submitted to the "FileType", the contents of the given file on the server could have been exposed to the attacker.

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 symfony 3.4.0+dfsg-1 —
Debian 13 symfony 3.4.0+dfsg-1 —
Debian 12 symfony 3.4.0+dfsg-1 —
Debian 9 symfony 2.8.7+dfsg-1.3+deb9u1 DSA-4262-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS symfony No fix yet —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Packagist symfony/form >= 2.7.0, < 2.7.38 2.7.38 GHSA-cqqh-94r6-wjrg
Packagist symfony/form >= 2.8.0, < 2.8.31 2.8.31 GHSA-cqqh-94r6-wjrg
Packagist symfony/form >= 3.0.0, < 3.2.14 3.2.14 GHSA-cqqh-94r6-wjrg
Packagist symfony/form >= 3.3.0, < 3.3.13 3.3.13 GHSA-cqqh-94r6-wjrg
Packagist symfony/symfony >= 2.7.0, < 2.7.38 2.7.38 GHSA-cqqh-94r6-wjrg
Packagist symfony/symfony >= 2.8.0, < 2.8.31 2.8.31 GHSA-cqqh-94r6-wjrg
Packagist symfony/symfony >= 3.0.0, < 3.2.14 3.2.14 GHSA-cqqh-94r6-wjrg
Packagist symfony/symfony >= 3.3.0, < 3.3.13 3.3.13 GHSA-cqqh-94r6-wjrg

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