CVE-2017-16652

NameCVE-2017-16652
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in Symfony 2.7.x before 2.7.38, 2.8.x before 2.8.31, 3.2.x before 3.2.14, and 3.3.x before 3.3.13. DefaultAuthenticationSuccessHandler or DefaultAuthenticationFailureHandler takes the content of the _target_path parameter and generates a redirect response, but no check is performed on the path, which could be an absolute URL to an external domain. This Open redirect vulnerability can be exploited for example to mount effective phishing attacks.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-1707-1, DSA-4262-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
symfony (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)2.3.21+dfsg-4+deb8u6fixed
stretch (security)2.8.7+dfsg-1.3+deb9u3fixed
stretch (lts), stretch2.8.7+dfsg-1.3+deb9u5fixed
buster (security), buster, buster (lts)3.4.22+dfsg-2+deb10u3fixed
bullseye4.4.19+dfsg-2+deb11u6fixed
bookworm5.4.23+dfsg-1+deb12u2fixed
bookworm (security)5.4.23+dfsg-1+deb12u4fixed
sid, trixie6.4.16+dfsg-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
symfonysourcejessie2.3.21+dfsg-4+deb8u4DLA-1707-1
symfonysourcestretch2.8.7+dfsg-1.3+deb9u1DSA-4262-1
symfonysource(unstable)3.4.0+dfsg-1

Notes

https://symfony.com/blog/cve-2017-16652-open-redirect-vulnerability-on-security-handlers
https://github.com/symfony/symfony/pull/24995
See CVE-2018-11408 to address original incomplete fix for CVE-2017-16652

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