Vulnerability identifier: #VU31282

Vulnerability risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 5.2 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-11386

CWE-ID: CWE-613

Exploitation vector: Network

Exploit availability: No

Vulnerable software:
Symfony
Web applications / CMS

Vendor: SensioLabs

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

An issue was discovered in the HttpFoundation component in Symfony 2.7.x before 2.7.48, 2.8.x before 2.8.41, 3.3.x before 3.3.17, 3.4.x before 3.4.11, and 4.0.x before 4.0.11. The PDOSessionHandler class allows storing sessions on a PDO connection. Under some configurations and with a well-crafted payload, it was possible to do a denial of service on a Symfony application without too much resources.

Mitigation
Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

Symfony: 4.0.0 - 4.0.10

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External links
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/G4XNBMFW33H47O5TZGA7JYCVLDBCXAJV/
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UBQK7JDXIELADIPGZIOUCZKMAJM5LSBW/
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WU5N2TZFNGXDGMXMPP7LZCWTFLENF6WH/
http://symfony.com/blog/cve-2018-11386-denial-of-service-when-using-pdosessionhandler
http://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4262

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Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.