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Symfony Directory Traversal

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 14, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 7, 2024

Package

composer symfony/intl (Composer)

Affected versions

>= 2.7.0, < 2.7.38
>= 2.8.0, < 2.8.31
>= 3.0.0, < 3.2.14
>= 3.3.0, < 3.3.13

Patched versions

2.7.38
2.8.31
3.2.14
3.3.13
composer symfony/symfony (Composer)
>= 2.7.0, < 2.7.38
>= 2.8.0, < 2.8.31
>= 3.0.0, < 3.2.14
>= 3.3.0, < 3.3.13
2.7.38
2.8.31
3.2.14
3.3.13

Description

An issue was discovered in Symfony before 2.7.38, 2.8.31, 3.2.14, 3.3.13, 3.4-BETA5, and 4.0-BETA5. The Intl component includes various bundle readers that are used to read resource bundles from the local filesystem. The read() methods of these classes use a path and a locale to determine the language bundle to retrieve. The locale argument value is commonly retrieved from untrusted user input (like a URL parameter). An attacker can use this argument to navigate to arbitrary directories via the dot-dot-slash attack, aka Directory Traversal.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Aug 6, 2018
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 14, 2022
Reviewed Jul 26, 2023
Last updated Feb 7, 2024

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS score

0.198%
(58th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2017-16654

GHSA ID

GHSA-c49r-8gj6-768r

Source code

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