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SCA: security update for symfony/security, symfony/security-csrf, symfony/symfony (GHSA-92x6-h2gr-8gxq)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 433789

Description

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

 - An issue was discovered in Symfony before 2.7.38, 2.8.31, 3.2.14, 3.3.13, 3.4-BETA5, and 4.0-BETA5. The
 current implementation of CSRF protection in Symfony (Version >=2) does not use different tokens for HTTP
 and HTTPS; therefore the token is subject to MITM attacks on HTTP and can then be used in an HTTPS context
 to do CSRF attacks. (CVE-2017-16653)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-92x6-h2gr-8gxq

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 433789

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

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: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-16653

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/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: 5/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/12/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-16653

cwe: CWE-352