CVE-2017-16652

An 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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 6.1 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2018-06-13

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-601

Affected products

• Debian Linux (Debian)
• Symfony (Sensiolabs)

References

• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00009.html
• https://symfony.com/blog/cve-2017-16652-open-redirect-vulnerability-on-security-handlers