CVE-2019-18886

Published: Nov 21, 2019Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSACWE-203

5.3MEDIUM

NVD MITRE

Description

An issue was discovered in Symfony 4.2.0 to 4.2.11 and 4.3.0 to 4.3.7. The ability to enumerate users was possible due to different handling depending on whether the user existed when making unauthorized attempts to use the switch users functionality. This is related to symfony/security.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

Exploitability

AV:NAttack Vector

Network

AC:LAttack Complexity

Low

PR:NPrivileges Required

None

UI:NUser Interaction

None

Scope

S:UScope

Unchanged

Impact

C:LConfidentiality

Low

I:NIntegrity

None

A:NAvailability

None

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Weaknesses

CWE-203

Affected Products

Packagist

package-ecosystem

symfony/security-http

oss-project

symfonyLibraryLibrary

OSS Libraries / generic-library

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Exploitability

2 exploit sources identified

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MITRE ATT&CK

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References

https://github.com/symfony/symfony/releases/tag/v4.3.8

github.com

https://symfony.com/blog/cve-2019-18886-prevent-user-enumeration-using-switch-user-functionality

symfony.com

https://symfony.com/blog/symfony-4-3-8-released

symfony.com

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