MediumGHSA-h7v2-2qwg-h829CVE-2014-6061

Symfony has a security issue when parsing the Authorization header

Published 30 May 2024 · Updated 30 May 2024

Affected packages

symfony/http-foundationComposer
Affected
>=2.0.0 <2.3.19
Fixed in
2.3.19
Update to the fixed version for your release line, for example:composer require symfony/http-foundation:^2.3.19
symfony/http-foundationComposer
Affected
>=2.4.0 <2.4.9
Fixed in
2.4.9
Update to the fixed version for your release line, for example:composer require symfony/http-foundation:^2.4.9
symfony/http-foundationComposer
Affected
>=2.5.0 <2.5.4
Fixed in
2.5.4
Update to the fixed version for your release line, for example:composer require symfony/http-foundation:^2.5.4
symfony/symfonyComposer
Affected
>=2.0.0 <2.3.19
Fixed in
2.3.19
Update to the fixed version for your release line, for example:composer require symfony/symfony:^2.3.19
symfony/symfonyComposer
Affected
>=2.4.0 <2.4.9
Fixed in
2.4.9
Update to the fixed version for your release line, for example:composer require symfony/symfony:^2.4.9
symfony/symfonyComposer
Affected
>=2.5.0 <2.5.4
Fixed in
2.5.4
Update to the fixed version for your release line, for example:composer require symfony/symfony:^2.5.4

Details

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

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References

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