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GHSA-MCX4-F5F5-4859

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2020-03-30 20:09 – Updated: 2021-01-08 20:25

Summary

Prevent cache poisoning via a Response Content-Type header in Symfony

Details

Description

When a Response does not contain a Content-Type header, Symfony falls back to the format defined in the Accept header of the request, leading to a possible mismatch between the response's content and Content-Type header. When the response is cached, this can lead to a corrupted cache where the cached format is not the right one.

Resolution

Symfony does not use the Accept header anymore to guess the Content-Type.

The patch for this issue is available here for the 4.4 branch.

Credits

I would like to thank Xavier Lacot from JoliCode for reporting & Yonel Ceruto and Tobias Schultze for fixing the issue.

Severity

2.6 (Low)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

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CVE-2020-5255 (GCVE-0-2020-5255)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-03-30 19:30 – Updated: 2024-08-04 08:22

Title

Prevent cache poisoning via a Response Content-Type header

Summary

In Symfony before versions 4.4.7 and 5.0.7, when a `Response` does not contain a `Content-Type` header, affected versions of Symfony can fallback to the format defined in the `Accept` header of the request, leading to a possible mismatch between the response's content and `Content-Type` header. When the response is cached, this can prevent the use of the website by other users. This has been patched in versions 4.4.7 and 5.0.7.

Severity

2.6 (Low)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CWE

CWE-435 - Improper Interaction Between Multiple Correctly-Behaving Entities

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

4 references

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https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
symfony	symfony	Affected: >= 4.4.0 and < 4.4.7 Affected: >= 5.0.0 and < 5.0.7

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