Argument injection in a MimeTypeGuesser in Symfony
High severity GitHub Reviewed PublishedDec 2, 2019 to the GitHub Advisory Database • UpdatedFeb 1, 2024
Description
An issue was discovered in Symfony 2.8.0 through 2.8.50, 3.4.0 through 3.4.34, 4.2.0 through 4.2.11, and 4.3.0 through 4.3.7. If an application passes unvalidated user input as the file for which MIME type validation should occur, then arbitrary arguments are passed to the underlying file command. This is related to symfony/http-foundation (and symfony/mime in 4.3.x).
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-18888
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/symfony/http-foundation/CVE-2019-18888.yaml
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/symfony/mime/CVE-2019-18888.yaml
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/symfony/symfony/CVE-2019-18888.yaml
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/releases/tag/v4.3.8
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DZNXRVHDQBNZQUCNRVZICPPBFRAUWUJX/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UED22BOXTL2SSFMGYKA64ZFHGLLJG3EA/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VXEAOEANNIVYANTMOJ42NKSU6BGNBULZ/
- https://symfony.com/blog/cve-2019-18888-prevent-argument-injection-in-a-mimetypeguesser
- https://symfony.com/blog/symfony-4-3-8-released
- https://symfony.com/cve-2019-18888
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DZNXRVHDQBNZQUCNRVZICPPBFRAUWUJX/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UED22BOXTL2SSFMGYKA64ZFHGLLJG3EA/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VXEAOEANNIVYANTMOJ42NKSU6BGNBULZ/
Published by theNational Vulnerability DatabaseNov 21, 2019
ReviewedDec 1, 2019
Published to the GitHub Advisory DatabaseDec 2, 2019
Last updatedFeb 1, 2024
Severity
High / 10
CVSS v3 base metrics
Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS score
(85th percentile)
CVE ID
CVE-2019-18888
GHSA ID
GHSA-xhh6-956q-4q69
Source code
No known source code
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