CVE-2022-24894: Prevent storing cookie headers in HttpCache
February 1, 2023 • Published by Fabien Potencier
Affected versions
Symfony versions >=2.0.0, <4.4.50, >= 5.0.0, < 5.4.20, >= 6.0.0, < 6.0.20, >= 6.1.0, < 6.1.12, and >= 6.2.0, < 6.2.6 of the Symfony Security Bundle are affected by this security issue.
The issue has been fixed in Symfony 4.4.50, 5.4.20, 6.0.20, 6.1.12, and 6.2.6. All other versions are not maintained anymore.
Description
The Symfony HTTP cache system acts as a reverse proxy: it caches HTTP responses (including headers) and returns them to clients.
In a recent AbstractSessionListener
change, the response might now contain a Set-Cookie
header. If the Symfony HTTP cache system is enabled, this header might be stored and returned to some other clients. An attacker can use this vulnerability to retrieve the victim's session.
Resolution
The HttpStore
constructor now takes a parameter containing a list of private headers that are removed from the HTTP response headers.
The default value for this parameter is Set-Cookie
, but it can be overridden or extended by the application.
The patch for this issue is available here for branch 4.4.
Credits
We would like to thank Soner Sayakci for reporting the issue and Nicolas Grekas for fixing it.
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Does that mean that the 3.x branch was not affected?
On another topic, tags of Symfony sub repos have not been made yet, even though packagist.org referes them. Is that something overlooked?
symfony/dotenv: v5.4.20
symfony/framework-bundle: v5.4.20
symfony/http-foundation: v5.4.20
symfony/http-kernel: v5.4.20
symfony/twig-bundle: v5.4.20
symfony/workflow: v5.4.20
symfony/yaml: v5.4.20
...
I have it when I run the symfony check:security command.
I don’t often work with symfony so I don’t know all the manipulation.
Do I need to update this package to the version 4.4 ? I try this but I have this error 'Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.' because I have others packages.
Thank you