CVE-2019-10911 Improper authentication in Symfony

High 7.5 Published Updated

An attacker can authenticate as a privileged user on sites using Symfony's remember me feature with user registration enabled.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2019-10911?

CVE-2019-10911 is a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Drupal Drupal, published on 16 May 2019. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In Symfony before 2.7.51, 2.8.x before 2.8.50, 3.x before 3.4.26, 4.x before 4.1.12, and 4.2.x before 4.2.7, a vulnerability would allow an attacker to authenticate as a privileged user on sites with user registration and remember me login functionality enabled. This is related to symfony/security.

Weakness: CWE-287

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-10911?

30 open source packages ship an affected version, including symfony/security, symfony/security-http and symfony/symfony. It affects 2 products.

PackageAffectedFixed in
symfony/security PackagistFrom 2.7.02.7.51
symfony/security PackagistFrom 2.7.02.7.51
symfony/security PackagistFrom 2.8.02.8.50
symfony/security PackagistFrom 2.8.02.8.50
symfony/security PackagistFrom 3.0.03.4.26
symfony/security PackagistFrom 3.0.03.4.26
24 more packages
symfony/security PackagistFrom 4.0.04.1.12
symfony/security PackagistFrom 4.0.04.1.12
symfony/security PackagistFrom 4.2.04.2.7
symfony/security PackagistFrom 4.2.04.2.7
symfony/security-http PackagistFrom 2.7.02.7.51
symfony/security-http PackagistFrom 2.7.02.7.51
symfony/security-http PackagistFrom 2.8.02.8.50
symfony/security-http PackagistFrom 2.8.02.8.50
symfony/security-http PackagistFrom 3.0.03.4.26
symfony/security-http PackagistFrom 3.0.03.4.26
symfony/security-http PackagistFrom 4.0.04.1.12
symfony/security-http PackagistFrom 4.0.04.1.12
symfony/security-http PackagistFrom 4.2.04.2.7
symfony/security-http PackagistFrom 4.2.04.2.7
symfony/symfony PackagistFrom 2.7.02.7.51
symfony/symfony PackagistFrom 2.7.02.7.51
symfony/symfony PackagistFrom 2.8.02.8.50
symfony/symfony PackagistFrom 2.8.02.8.50
symfony/symfony PackagistFrom 3.0.03.4.26
symfony/symfony PackagistFrom 3.0.03.4.26
symfony/symfony PackagistFrom 4.0.04.1.12
symfony/symfony PackagistFrom 4.0.04.1.12
symfony/symfony PackagistFrom 4.2.04.2.7
symfony/symfony PackagistFrom 4.2.04.2.7

Products include Drupal Drupal, Sensiolabs Symfony.

How do I fix CVE-2019-10911?

Upgrade symfony/security to a fixed version for your release line: 2.7.51, 2.8.50, 3.4.26 or 4.1.12.

Upgrade, and rotate credentials and sessions that may have been exposed. More about Authentication bypass.

Is CVE-2019-10911 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-10911 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2019-10911, GHSA-cchx-mfrc-fwqr, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-10911.

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