SCA: security update for symfony/security, symfony/security-core, symfony/symfony (GHSA-jjx5-fq5g-8xpc)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 432721

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- The nextBytes function in the SecureRandom class in Symfony before 2.3.37, 2.6.x before 2.6.13, and 2.7.x
before 2.7.9 does not properly generate random numbers when used with PHP 5.x without the
paragonie/random_compat library and the openssl_random_pseudo_bytes function fails, which makes it easier
for attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms via unspecified vectors. (CVE-2016-1902)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 432721

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/11/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-1902

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/18/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-1902

BID: 81805

cwe: CWE-332

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