Vulnerability in Sensiolabs Symfony

CVE-2018-11386

An issue was discovered in the HttpFoundation component in Symfony 2.7.x before 2.7.48, 2.8.x before 2.8.41, 3.3.x before 3.3.17, 3.4.x before 3.4.11, and 4.0.x before 4.0.11. The PDOSessionHandler class allows storing sessions on a PDO connection. Under some configurations and with a well-crafted payload, it was possible to do a denial of service on a Symfony application without too much resources.

EPSS: 0.016 (73.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-11386?
CVE-2018-11386 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Sensiolabs Symfony, classified under Insufficient Session Expiration. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2018-06-13.
How severe is CVE-2018-11386?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.
Is CVE-2018-11386 known to be exploited?
1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.