CVE-2018-11386
mediumpriority · track · 25EPSS 0.016 · 75 %ileEURUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
An issue was discovered in the HttpFoundation component in Symfony 2.7.x before 2.7.48, 2.8.x before 2.8.41, 3.3.x before 3.3.17, 3.4.x before 3.4.11, and 4.0.x before 4.0.11. The PDOSessionHandler class allows storing sessions on a PDO connection. Under some configurations and with a well-crafted payload, it was possible to do a denial of service on a Symfony application without too much resources.
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affected products (25)
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advisories (1)
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- GHSA-r2rq-3h56-fqm4Symfony DoS2022-05-14ghsa · osvUS
An issue was discovered in the HttpFoundation component in Symfony 2.7.x before 2.7.48, 2.8.x before 2.8.41, 3.3.x before 3.3.17, 3.4.x before 3.4.11, and 4.0.x before 4.0.11. The PDOSessionHandler class allows storing sessions on a PDO connection. Under some configurations and with a well-crafted payload, it was possible to do a denial of service on a Symfony application without too much resources.
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references (15)
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- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/G4XNBMFW33H47O5TZGA7JYCVLDBCXAJV/cnnvd
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UBQK7JDXIELADIPGZIOUCZKMAJM5LSBW/cnnvd
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WU5N2TZFNGXDGMXMPP7LZCWTFLENF6WH/cnnvd
- https://symfony.com/blog/cve-2018-11386-denial-of-service-when-using-pdosessionhandlercnnvd
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4262cnnvd
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/G4XNBMFW33H47O5TZGA7JYCVLDBCXAJV/enisa_euvd
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UBQK7JDXIELADIPGZIOUCZKMAJM5LSBW/enisa_euvd
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WU5N2TZFNGXDGMXMPP7LZCWTFLENF6WH/enisa_euvd
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