CVE-2018-11408
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-06-13 16:00
Modified
2024-08-05 08:10
Severity ?
Summary
The security handlers in the Security component in Symfony in 2.7.x before 2.7.48, 2.8.x before 2.8.41, 3.3.x before 3.3.17, 3.4.x before 3.4.11, and 4.0.x before 4.0.11 have an Open redirect vulnerability when security.http_utils is inlined by a container. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2017-16652.
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