GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Packagist
GHSA-5c58-w9xc-qcj9 Symfony Vulnerable to PHP Eval Injection
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2015-2308
- Ecosystem
- Packagist
- Packages
- symfony/symfony, symfony/http-kernel
- Severity
- Moderate
- Weaknesses
- CWE-94
- Reviewed
- 2024-04-25
Affected packages
• Packagist symfony/symfony: >= 2.0.0, < 2.3.27 → fixed in 2.3.27
• Packagist symfony/symfony: >= 2.4.0, < 2.5.11 → fixed in 2.5.11
• Packagist symfony/symfony: >= 2.6.0, < 2.6.6 → fixed in 2.6.6
• Packagist symfony/http-kernel: >= 2.0.0, < 2.3.27 → fixed in 2.3.27
• Packagist symfony/http-kernel: >= 2.4.0, < 2.5.11 → fixed in 2.5.11
• Packagist symfony/http-kernel: >= 2.6.0, < 2.6.6 → fixed in 2.6.6
Description
Applications with ESI support (and SSI support as of Symfony 2.6) enabled and using the Symfony built-in reverse proxy (the `Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\HttpCache class) are vulnerable to PHP code injection; a malicious user can inject PHP code that will be executed by the server.
HttpCache uses eval() to execute files in its cache when they contain ESI tags (and only when ESI is enabled). The vulnerability comes from the fact that PHP allows contents of tags to be executed (and this kind of PHP tags is always available regardless of the configuration), but there were not escaped before the evaluation.
A possible exploit comes from websites also vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting as an attacker can successfully conduct a PHP code injection attack by passing such a tag in a user submitted variable (for which proper output escaping was not applied).
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2015-2308 Eval injection vulnerability in the HttpCache class in HttpKernel in Symfony 2.x before 2.3.27, 2.4.x and 2.5.x before 2.5.11, and 2.6.x… vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code weakness
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2308 advisory
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/pull/14167/commits/195c57e1f50765aff33137689b16e126a689056a web
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/symfony/http-kernel/CVE-2015-2308.yaml web
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/symfony/symfony/CVE-2015-2308.yaml web
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony package
- https://symfony.com/blog/cve-2015-2308-esi-code-injection web
- https://symfony.com/cve-2015-2308 web
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200228084751/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75357 web
- http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN19578958/index.html web
- http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2015-000089 web