Vulnerability · Published Nov 10, 2023 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2023-46733Symfony possible session fixation vulnerability

Medium 6.5

In plain English

A medium-severity session fixation in symfony from symfony. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.7% (higher than 53% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.7%top 47.1% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Symfony is a PHP framework for web and console applications and a set of reusable PHP components. Starting in versions 5.4.21 and 6.2.7 and prior to versions 5.4.31 and 6.3.8, `SessionStrategyListener` does not migrate the session after every successful login. It does so only in case the logged in user changes by means of checking the user identifier. In some use cases, the user identifier doesn't change between the verification phase and the successful login, while the token itself changes from one type (partially-authenticated) to another (fully-authenticated). When this happens, the session id should be regenerated to prevent possible session fixations, which is not the case at the moment. As of versions 5.4.31 and 6.3.8, Symfony now checks the type of the token in addition to the user identifier before deciding whether the session id should be regenerated.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12symfony5.4.23+dfsg-1+deb12u1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-46733
Debian:13symfony5.4.31+dfsg-1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-46733
Debian:14symfony5.4.31+dfsg-1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-46733
Packagistsymfony/security-http6.3.8GHSA-m2wj-r6g3-fxfx
Packagistsymfony/security-http5.4.31GHSA-m2wj-r6g3-fxfx
Packagistsymfony/symfony6.3.8GHSA-m2wj-r6g3-fxfx
Packagistsymfony/symfony5.4.31GHSA-m2wj-r6g3-fxfx

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
symfony symfony >= 5.4.21, < 5.4.31>= 6.2.7, < 6.3.8

Weakness: CWE-384 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

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