Vulnerability in symfony/http-kernel (CVE-2020-15094)
Summary
Vulnerability in symfony/http-kernel (CVE-2020-15094). Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.1.5 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
In Symfony before versions 4.4.13 and 5.1.5, the CachingHttpClient class from the HttpClient Symfony component relies on the HttpCache class to handle requests. HttpCache uses internal headers like X-Body-Eval and X-Body-File to control the restoration of cached responses. The class was initially written with surrogate caching and ESI support in mind (all HTTP calls come from a trusted backend in that scenario). But when used by CachingHttpClient and if an attacker can control the response for a request being made by the CachingHttpClient, remote code execution is possible. This has been fixed in versions 4.4.13 and 5.1.5.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD GitHub Advisory OSV
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2020-15094 has been found in symfony/http-kernel.
Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover.
What to do: upgrade symfony/http-kernel to 5.1.5 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "symfony/http-kernel CVE-2020-15094" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2020-15094 (symfony/http-kernel) — CWE-212
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / no user interaction
Patched: 5.1.5 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-212) exists in symfony/http-kernel.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of symfony/http-kernel.
Severity: ?. Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover.
Update to 5.1.5.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'symfony/http-kernel' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'symfony/http-kernel' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
symfony/http-kernelを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade symfony/http-kernel to 5.1.5ステージング環境で 5.1.5 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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3Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2020-15094 symfony Fixed in: 4.4.13+dfsg-1
References
- advisory github.com
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- advisory packagist.org
- advisory packagist.org
- package github.com
- patch github.com
- web github.com
- web github.com
- web lists.fedoraproject.org
- web lists.fedoraproject.org
- web symfony.com
- web lists.fedoraproject.org
- web lists.fedoraproject.org