GHSA-2xhg-w2g5-w95x

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Source
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2xhg-w2g5-w95x
Import Source
https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2021/11/GHSA-2xhg-w2g5-w95x/GHSA-2xhg-w2g5-w95x.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-2xhg-w2g5-w95x
Aliases
Published
2021-11-24T21:01:23Z
Modified
2024-02-15T05:32:43.365997Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
CSV Injection in symfony/serializer
Details

Description

CSV Injection, also known as Formula Injection, occurs when websites embed untrusted input inside CSV files. When a spreadsheet program opens a CSV, any cell starting with = is interpreted by the software as a formula and could be abused by an attacker.

In Symfony 4.1, we've added the opt-in csv_escape_formulas option in CsvEncoder, to prefix all cells starting by =, +, - or @ by a tab \t.

Since then, OWASP added 2 chars in that list: - Tab (0x09) - Carriage return (0x0D)

This makes our previous prefix char (Tab \t) part of the vulnerable characters, and OWASP suggests using the single quote ' for prefixing the value.

Resolution

Symfony now follows the OWASP recommendations and use the single quote ' to prefix formulas and adds the prefix to cells starting by \t, \r as well as =, +, - and @.

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

Credits

We would like to thank Jake Barwell for reporting the issue and Jérémy Derussé for fixing the issue.

Database specific 
{
    "nvd_published_at": "2021-11-24T19:15:00Z",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-1236"
    ],
    "severity": "MODERATE",
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2021-11-24T20:04:02Z"
}
References

Affected packages

Packagist / symfony/serializer

Package

Name
symfony/serializer
Purl
pkg:composer/symfony/serializer

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.0.0
Fixed
5.3.12

Affected versions

v5.*

v5.0.0
v5.0.1
v5.0.2
v5.0.3
v5.0.4
v5.0.5
v5.0.6
v5.0.7
v5.0.8
v5.0.9
v5.0.10
v5.0.11
v5.1.0-BETA1
v5.1.0-RC1
v5.1.0-RC2
v5.1.0
v5.1.1
v5.1.2
v5.1.3
v5.1.4
v5.1.5
v5.1.6
v5.1.7
v5.1.8
v5.1.9
v5.1.10
v5.1.11
v5.2.0-BETA1
v5.2.0-BETA2
v5.2.0-BETA3
v5.2.0-RC1
v5.2.0-RC2
v5.2.0
v5.2.1
v5.2.2
v5.2.3
v5.2.4
v5.2.7
v5.2.9
v5.2.10
v5.2.11
v5.2.12
v5.3.0-BETA1
v5.3.0-BETA3
v5.3.0-RC1
v5.3.0
v5.3.1
v5.3.2
v5.3.4
v5.3.8
v5.3.10
v5.3.11

Packagist / symfony/serializer

Package

Name
symfony/serializer
Purl
pkg:composer/symfony/serializer

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.1.0
Fixed
4.4.35

Affected versions

v4.*

v4.1.0
v4.1.1
v4.1.2
v4.1.3
v4.1.4
v4.1.5
v4.1.6
v4.1.7
v4.1.8
v4.1.9
v4.1.10
v4.1.11
v4.1.12
v4.2.0-BETA1
v4.2.0-BETA2
v4.2.0-RC1
v4.2.0
v4.2.1
v4.2.2
v4.2.3
v4.2.4
v4.2.5
v4.2.6
v4.2.7
v4.2.8
v4.2.9
v4.2.10
v4.2.11
v4.2.12
v4.3.0-BETA1
v4.3.0-BETA2
v4.3.0-RC1
v4.3.0
v4.3.1
v4.3.2
v4.3.3
v4.3.4
v4.3.5
v4.3.6
v4.3.7
v4.3.8
v4.3.9
v4.3.10
v4.3.11
v4.4.0-BETA1
v4.4.0-BETA2
v4.4.0-RC1
v4.4.0
v4.4.1
v4.4.2
v4.4.3
v4.4.4
v4.4.5
v4.4.6
v4.4.7
v4.4.8
v4.4.9
v4.4.10
v4.4.11
v4.4.12
v4.4.13
v4.4.14
v4.4.15
v4.4.16
v4.4.17
v4.4.18
v4.4.19
v4.4.20
v4.4.22
v4.4.24
v4.4.25
v4.4.26
v4.4.27
v4.4.31
v4.4.33
v4.4.34

Packagist / symfony/symfony

Package

Name
symfony/symfony
Purl
pkg:composer/symfony/symfony

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.1.0
Fixed
4.4.35

Affected versions

v4.*

v4.1.0
v4.1.1
v4.1.2
v4.1.3
v4.1.4
v4.1.5
v4.1.6
v4.1.7
v4.1.8
v4.1.9
v4.1.10
v4.1.11
v4.1.12
v4.1.13
v4.2.0-BETA1
v4.2.0-BETA2
v4.2.0-RC1
v4.2.0
v4.2.1
v4.2.2
v4.2.3
v4.2.4
v4.2.5
v4.2.6
v4.2.7
v4.2.8
v4.2.9
v4.2.10
v4.2.11
v4.2.12
v4.3.0-BETA1
v4.3.0-BETA2
v4.3.0-RC1
v4.3.0
v4.3.1
v4.3.2
v4.3.3
v4.3.4
v4.3.5
v4.3.6
v4.3.7
v4.3.8
v4.3.9
v4.3.10
v4.3.11
v4.4.0-BETA1
v4.4.0-BETA2
v4.4.0-RC1
v4.4.0
v4.4.1
v4.4.2
v4.4.3
v4.4.4
v4.4.5
v4.4.6
v4.4.7
v4.4.8
v4.4.9
v4.4.10
v4.4.11
v4.4.12
v4.4.13
v4.4.14
v4.4.15
v4.4.16
v4.4.17
v4.4.18
v4.4.19
v4.4.20
v4.4.21
v4.4.22
v4.4.23
v4.4.24
v4.4.25
v4.4.26
v4.4.27
v4.4.28
v4.4.29
v4.4.30
v4.4.31
v4.4.32
v4.4.33
v4.4.34

Packagist / symfony/symfony

Package

Name
symfony/symfony
Purl
pkg:composer/symfony/symfony

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.0.0
Fixed
5.3.12

Affected versions

v5.*

v5.0.0
v5.0.1
v5.0.2
v5.0.3
v5.0.4
v5.0.5
v5.0.6
v5.0.7
v5.0.8
v5.0.9
v5.0.10
v5.0.11
v5.1.0-BETA1
v5.1.0-RC1
v5.1.0-RC2
v5.1.0
v5.1.1
v5.1.2
v5.1.3
v5.1.4
v5.1.5
v5.1.6
v5.1.7
v5.1.8
v5.1.9
v5.1.10
v5.1.11
v5.2.0-BETA1
v5.2.0-BETA2
v5.2.0-BETA3
v5.2.0-RC1
v5.2.0-RC2
v5.2.0
v5.2.1
v5.2.2
v5.2.3
v5.2.4
v5.2.5
v5.2.6
v5.2.7
v5.2.8
v5.2.9
v5.2.10
v5.2.11
v5.2.12
v5.2.13
v5.2.14
v5.3.0-BETA1
v5.3.0-BETA2
v5.3.0-BETA3
v5.3.0-BETA4
v5.3.0-RC1
v5.3.0
v5.3.1
v5.3.2
v5.3.3
v5.3.4
v5.3.5
v5.3.6
v5.3.7
v5.3.8
v5.3.9
v5.3.10
v5.3.11