CVE-2019-18888

high

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://symfony.com/blog/symfony-4-3-8-released

https://symfony.com/blog/cve-2019-18888-prevent-argument-injection-in-a-mimetypeguesser

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VXEAOEANNIVYANTMOJ42NKSU6BGNBULZ/

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/DZNXRVHDQBNZQUCNRVZICPPBFRAUWUJX/

https://github.com/symfony/symfony/releases/tag/v4.3.8

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-11-21

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Severity: High