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High · 8.0 CVE-2020-15094 BIT-symfony-2020-15094EUVD-2020-0840GHSA-754h-5r27-7x3r

RCE in Symfony

Published Sep 2, 2020 · Updated Aug 4, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

In Symfony before versions 4.4.13 and 5.1.5, the CachingHttpClient class from the HttpClient Symfony component relies on the HttpCache class to handle requests. HttpCache uses internal headers like X-Body-Eval and X-Body-File to control the restoration of cached responses. The class was initially written with surrogate caching and ESI support in mind (all HTTP calls come from a trusted backend in that scenario). But when used by CachingHttpClient and if an attacker can control the response for a request being made by the CachingHttpClient, remote code execution is possible. This has been fixed in versions 4.4.13 and 5.1.5.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
symfony symfony >= 4.4.0, < 4.4.13, >= 5.0.0, < 5.1.5 —

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 4.4.13+dfsg-1 —
Debian 13 symfony 4.4.13+dfsg-1 —
Debian 12 symfony 4.4.13+dfsg-1 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Packagist symfony/http-kernel >= 4.3.0, < 4.4.13 4.4.13 GHSA-754h-5r27-7x3r
Packagist symfony/http-kernel >= 5.0.0, < 5.1.5 5.1.5 GHSA-754h-5r27-7x3r
Packagist symfony/symfony >= 4.3.0, < 4.4.13 4.4.13 GHSA-754h-5r27-7x3r
Packagist symfony/symfony >= 5.0.0, < 5.1.5 5.1.5 GHSA-754h-5r27-7x3r

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