CVE-2017-16653
mediumpriority · track · 25EPSS 0.015 · 74 %ileEURUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
An issue was discovered in Symfony before 2.7.38, 2.8.31, 3.2.14, 3.3.13, 3.4-BETA5, and 4.0-BETA5. The current implementation of CSRF protection in Symfony (Version >=2) does not use different tokens for HTTP and HTTPS; therefore the token is subject to MITM attacks on HTTP and can then be used in an HTTPS context to do CSRF attacks.
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affected products (24)
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advisories (1)
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- GHSA-92x6-h2gr-8gxqSymfony CSRF Vulnerability2022-05-13ghsa · osvUS
An issue was discovered in Symfony before 2.7.38, 2.8.31, 3.2.14, 3.3.13, 3.4-BETA5, and 4.0-BETA5. The current implementation of CSRF protection in Symfony (Version >=2) does not use different tokens for HTTP and HTTPS; therefore the token is subject to MITM attacks on HTTP and can then be used in an HTTPS context to do CSRF attacks.
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references (10)
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- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/pull/24992cnnvd
- https://symfony.com/blog/cve-2017-16653-csrf-protection-does-not-use-different-tokens-for-cnnvd
- https://symfony.com/blog/cve-2017-16653-csrf-protection-does-not-use-different-tokens-for-http-and-httpsPatchcnnvd
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4262cnnvd
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/pull/24992enisa_euvd
- https://symfony.com/blog/cve-2017-16653-csrf-protection-does-not-use-different-tokens-for-http-and-httpsenisa_euvd
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4262enisa_euvd
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/pull/24992Issue TrackingThird Party Advisorynvd
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