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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2023-46733 BIT-symfony-2023-46733EUVD-2023-2996GHSA-m2wj-r6g3-fxfx

Symfony possible session fixation vulnerability

Published Nov 10, 2023 · Updated Sep 3, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Symfony is a PHP framework for web and console applications and a set of reusable PHP components. Starting in versions 5.4.21 and 6.2.7 and prior to versions 5.4.31 and 6.3.8, `SessionStrategyListener` does not migrate the session after every successful login. It does so only in case the logged in user changes by means of checking the user identifier. In some use cases, the user identifier doesn't change between the verification phase and the successful login, while the token itself changes from one type (partially-authenticated) to another (fully-authenticated). When this happens, the session id should be regenerated to prevent possible session fixations, which is not the case at the moment. As of versions 5.4.31 and 6.3.8, Symfony now checks the type of the token in addition to the user identifier before deciding whether the session id should be regenerated.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
symfony symfony >= 5.4.21, < 5.4.31, >= 6.2.7, < 6.3.8 —

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 5.4.31+dfsg-1 —
Debian 13 symfony 5.4.31+dfsg-1 —
Debian 12 symfony 5.4.23+dfsg-1+deb12u1 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Packagist symfony/security-http >= 5.4.21, < 5.4.31 5.4.31 GHSA-m2wj-r6g3-fxfx
Packagist symfony/security-http >= 6.2.7, < 6.3.8 6.3.8 GHSA-m2wj-r6g3-fxfx
Packagist symfony/symfony >= 5.4.21, < 5.4.31 5.4.31 GHSA-m2wj-r6g3-fxfx
Packagist symfony/symfony >= 6.2.7, < 6.3.8 6.3.8 GHSA-m2wj-r6g3-fxfx

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