CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-4423

7.5 HIGH Published 2016-06-01 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
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