CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-4423
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-06-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
The attemptAuthentication function in Component/Security/Http/Firewall/UsernamePasswordFormAuthenticationListener.php in Symfony before 2.3.41, 2.7.x before 2.7.13, 2.8.x before 2.8.6, and 3.0.x before 3.0.6 does not limit the length of a username stored in a session, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (session storage consumption) via a series of authentication attempts with long, non-existent usernames.
Affected configurations
• sensiolabs symfony (<= 2.3.40)
• sensiolabs symfony 2.7.0
• sensiolabs symfony 2.7.1
• sensiolabs symfony 2.7.2
• sensiolabs symfony 2.7.3
• sensiolabs symfony 2.7.4
• sensiolabs symfony 2.7.5
• sensiolabs symfony 2.7.6
• sensiolabs symfony 2.7.7
• sensiolabs symfony 2.7.8
• sensiolabs symfony 2.7.9
• sensiolabs symfony 2.7.10
• sensiolabs symfony 2.7.11
• sensiolabs symfony 2.7.12
• sensiolabs symfony 2.8.0
• sensiolabs symfony 2.8.1
• sensiolabs symfony 2.8.2
• sensiolabs symfony 2.8.3
• sensiolabs symfony 2.8.4
• sensiolabs symfony 2.8.5
• sensiolabs symfony 3.0.0
• sensiolabs symfony 3.0.1
• sensiolabs symfony 3.0.2
• sensiolabs symfony 3.0.3
• sensiolabs symfony 3.0.4
• sensiolabs symfony 3.0.5
• debian debian linux 8.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3588 www.debian.org
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/pull/18733 github.com
- https://symfony.com/blog/cve-2016-4423-large-username-storage-in-session Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3588 www.debian.org
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/pull/18733 github.com
- https://symfony.com/blog/cve-2016-4423-large-username-storage-in-session Vendor Advisory