DEBIAN-CVE-2018-14773

Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-14773
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-14773.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-14773
Upstream
Published
2018-08-03T17:29:00Z
Modified
2025-09-25T22:40:38Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

An issue was discovered in Http Foundation in Symfony 2.7.0 through 2.7.48, 2.8.0 through 2.8.43, 3.3.0 through 3.3.17, 3.4.0 through 3.4.13, 4.0.0 through 4.0.13, and 4.1.0 through 4.1.2. It arises from support for a (legacy) IIS header that lets users override the path in the request URL via the X-Original-URL or X-Rewrite-URL HTTP request header. These headers are designed for IIS support, but it's not verified that the server is in fact running IIS, which means anybody who can send these requests to an application can trigger this. This affects \Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request::prepareRequestUri() where X-Original-URL and XREWRITEURL are both used. The fix drops support for these methods so that they cannot be used as attack vectors such as web cache poisoning.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / symfony

Package

Name
symfony
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/symfony?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.4.14+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / symfony

Package

Name
symfony
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/symfony?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.4.14+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / symfony

Package

Name
symfony
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/symfony?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.4.14+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / symfony

Package

Name
symfony
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/symfony?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.4.14+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}