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SCA: security update for symfony/security, symfony/security-core, symfony/symfony (GHSA-wvj5-r78r-hhfq)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 434564

Description

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

 - Symfony before 2.8.6 and 3.x before 3.0.6 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication by logging in
 with an empty password and valid username, which triggers an unauthenticated bind. (CVE-2016-2403)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wvj5-r78r-hhfq

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 434564

Version: Revision 1.13

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: 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-2016-2403

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: 5/14/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/7/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-2403

BID: 96137

cwe: CWE-287