SCA: security update for symfony/symfony, symfony/var-exporter (GHSA-w4rc-rx25-8m86)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422432

Description

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

- An issue was discovered in Symfony before 4.2.12 and 4.3.x before 4.3.8. The VarExport component
incorrectly escapes strings, allowing some specially crafted ones to escalate to execution of arbitrary
PHP code. This is related to symfony/var-exporter. (CVE-2019-11325)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w4rc-rx25-8m86

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 422432

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-11325

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/12/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/21/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-11325

cwe: CWE-116