CVE-2021-41267

Webcache Poisoning in Symfony

State
Published
Severity
6.5 Medium
Published
Nov 24, 2021
Updated
Aug 4, 2024
Reserved
Sep 15, 2021

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Description

Symfony/Http-Kernel is the HTTP kernel component for Symfony, a PHP framework for web and console applications and a set of reusable PHP components. Headers that are not part of the "trusted_headers" allowed list are ignored and protect users from "Cache poisoning" attacks. In Symfony 5.2, maintainers added support for the `X-Forwarded-Prefix` headers, but this header was accessible in SubRequest, even if it was not part of the "trusted_headers" allowed list. An attacker could leverage this opportunity to forge requests containing a `X-Forwarded-Prefix` header, leading to a web cache poisoning issue. Versions 5.3.12 and later have a patch to ensure that the `X-Forwarded-Prefix` header is not forwarded to subrequests when it is not trusted.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.16.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-444 Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request Smuggling')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
symfonysymfony
  • >= 5.2.0, < 5.3.12Affected

References

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