CVE-2019-11325
highpriority · track · 40EPSS 0.034 · 89 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
An issue was discovered in Symfony before 4.2.12 and 4.3.x before 4.3.8. The VarExport component incorrectly escapes strings, allowing some specially crafted ones to escalate to execution of arbitrary PHP code. This is related to symfony/var-exporter.
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · high–critical · 7.5–9.8
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affected products (7)
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advisories (1)
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- GHSA-w4rc-rx25-8m86Improper Input Validation in Symfony2020-02-12ghsa · osvUS
An issue was discovered in Symfony before 4.2.12 and 4.3.x before 4.3.8. The VarExport component incorrectly escapes strings, allowing some specially crafted ones to escalate to execution of arbitrary PHP code. This is related to symfony/var-exporter.
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references (14)
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- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/releases/tag/v4.3.8cnnvd
- https://github.com/symfony/var-exporter/compare/d8bf442...57e00f3cnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-11325cnnvd
- https://symfony.com/blog/cve-2019-11325-fix-escaping-of-strings-in-varexportercnnvd
- https://symfony.com/blog/symfony-4-3-8-releasedcnnvd
- https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Symfony-Cross-Site-Scripting-via-VarExporter-30861cnnvd
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/releases/tag/v4.3.8enisa_euvd
- https://github.com/symfony/var-exporter/compare/d8bf442...57e00f3enisa_euvd
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