CVE-2022-24894

Description

The Symfony HTTP cache system acts as a reverse proxy: it caches HTTP responses (including headers) and returns them to clients.

In a recent AbstractSessionListener change, the response might now contain a Set-Cookie header. If the Symfony HTTP cache system is enabled, this header might be stored and returned to some other clients. An attacker can use this vulnerability to retrieve the victim's session.

Resolution

The HttpStore constructor now takes a parameter containing a list of private headers that are removed from the HTTP response headers. The default value for this parameter is Set-Cookie, but it can be overridden or extended by the application.

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

Credits

We would like to thank Soner Sayakci for reporting the issue and Nicolas Grekas for fixing it.

Symfony is a PHP framework for web and console applications and a set of reusable PHP components. The Symfony HTTP cache system, acts as a reverse proxy: It caches entire responses (including headers) and returns them to the clients. In a recent change in the AbstractSessionListener, the response might contain a Set-Cookie header. If the Symfony HTTP cache system is enabled, this response might bill stored and return to the next clients. An attacker can use this vulnerability to retrieve the victim's session. This issue has been patched and is available for branch 4.4.

Symfony is a PHP framework for web and console applications and a set of reusable PHP components. The Symfony HTTP cache system, acts as a reverse proxy: It caches entire responses (including headers) and returns them to the clients. In a recent change in the AbstractSessionListener, the response might contain a Set-Cookie header. If the Symfony HTTP cache system is enabled, this response might bill stored and return to the next clients. An attacker can use this vulnerability to retrieve the victim's session. This issue has been patched and is available for branch 4.4.

TuxCare rebuilt symfony/http-kernel to address 1 CVE. Fixed in v3.4.49-p1+tuxcare.

Soner Sayakci discovered that Symfony incorrectly handled cookie storage in the web cache. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information and access unauthorized resources. (CVE-2022-24894)

Marco Squarcina discovered that Symfony incorrectly handled the storage of user session information. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attack. (CVE-2022-24895)

Pierre Rudloff discovered that Symfony incorrectly checked HTML input. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform cross site scripting. (CVE-2023-46734)

Vladimir Dusheyko discovered that Symfony incorrectly sanitized special input with a PHP directive in URL query strings. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information or cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-50340)

Oleg Andreyev, Antoine Makdessi, and Moritz Rauch discovered that Symfony incorrectly handled user authentication. An attacker could possibly use this issue to access unauthorized resources and expose sensitive information. This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-50341, CVE-2024-51996)

Linus Karlsson and Chris Smith discovered that Symfony returned internal host information during host resolution. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-50342)

It was discovered that Symfony incorrectly parsed user input through regular expressions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information. (CVE-2024-50343)

Sam Mush discovered that Symfony incorrectly parsed URIs with special characters. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform phishing attacks. (CVE-2024-50345)