Symfony up to 2.8.50/3.4.34/4.2.11/4.3.7 MIME Type input validation

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Symfony up to 2.8.50/3.4.34/4.2.11/4.3.7. This impacts an unknown function of the component MIME Type Handler. Such manipulation leads to input validation. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2019-18888. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability was found in Symfony up to 2.8.50/3.4.34/4.2.11/4.3.7. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component MIME Type Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a input validation vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-20. The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

An issue was discovered in Symfony 2.8.0 through 2.8.50, 3.4.0 through 3.4.34, 4.2.0 through 4.2.11, and 4.3.0 through 4.3.7. If an application passes unvalidated user input as the file for which MIME type validation should occur, then arbitrary arguments are passed to the underlying file command. This is related to symfony/http-foundation (and symfony/mime in 4.3.x).

The weakness was presented 11/21/2019 (Website). The advisory is available at lists.fedoraproject.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-18888 since 11/12/2019. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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Name

• Symfony

Version

• 2.8.0
• 2.8.1
• 2.8.2
• 2.8.3
• 2.8.4
• 2.8.5
• 2.8.6
• 2.8.7
• 2.8.8
• 2.8.9
• 2.8.10
• 2.8.11
• 2.8.12
• 2.8.13
• 2.8.14
• 2.8.15
• 2.8.16
• 2.8.17
• 2.8.18
• 2.8.19
• 2.8.20
• 2.8.21
• 2.8.22
• 2.8.23
• 2.8.24
• 2.8.25
• 2.8.26
• 2.8.27
• 2.8.28
• 2.8.29
• 2.8.30
• 2.8.31
• 2.8.32
• 2.8.33
• 2.8.34
• 2.8.35
• 2.8.36
• 2.8.37
• 2.8.38
• 2.8.39
• 2.8.40
• 2.8.41
• 2.8.42
• 2.8.43
• 2.8.44
• 2.8.45
• 2.8.46
• 2.8.47
• 2.8.48
• 2.8.49
• 2.8.50
• 3.4.0
• 3.4.1
• 3.4.2
• 3.4.3
• 3.4.4
• 3.4.5
• 3.4.6
• 3.4.7
• 3.4.8
• 3.4.9
• 3.4.10
• 3.4.11
• 3.4.12
• 3.4.13
• 3.4.14
• 3.4.15
• 3.4.16
• 3.4.17
• 3.4.18
• 3.4.19
• 3.4.20
• 3.4.21
• 3.4.22
• 3.4.23
• 3.4.24
• 3.4.25
• 3.4.26
• 3.4.27
• 3.4.28
• 3.4.29
• 3.4.30
• 3.4.31
• 3.4.32
• 3.4.33
• 3.4.34
• 4.2.0
• 4.2.1
• 4.2.2
• 4.2.3
• 4.2.4
• 4.2.5
• 4.2.6
• 4.2.7
• 4.2.8
• 4.2.9
• 4.2.10
• 4.2.11
• 4.3.0
• 4.3.1
• 4.3.2
• 4.3.3
• 4.3.4
• 4.3.5
• 4.3.6
• 4.3.7

License

• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/symfony/symfony/

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