CVE-2019-18888
mediumpriority · track · 31EPSS 0.022 · 83 %ileEURUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
An issue was discovered in Symfony 2.8.0 through 2.8.50, 3.4.0 through 3.4.34, 4.2.0 through 4.2.11, and 4.3.0 through 4.3.7. If an application passes unvalidated user input as the file for which MIME type validation should occur, then arbitrary arguments are passed to the underlying file command. This is related to symfony/http-foundation (and symfony/mime in 4.3.x).
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5–7.5
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affected products (27)
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advisories (1)
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- GHSA-xhh6-956q-4q69Argument injection in a MimeTypeGuesser in Symfony2019-12-02ghsa · osvUS
An issue was discovered in Symfony 2.8.0 through 2.8.50, 3.4.0 through 3.4.34, 4.2.0 through 4.2.11, and 4.3.0 through 4.3.7. If an application passes unvalidated user input as the file for which MIME type validation should occur, then arbitrary arguments are passed to the underlying file command. This is related to symfony/http-foundation (and symfony/mime in 4.3.x).
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references (23)
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- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/releases/tag/v4.3.8cnnvd
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/11/msg00019.htmlcnnvd
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DZNXRVHDQBNZQUCNRVZICPPBFRAUWUJX/cnnvd
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UED22BOXTL2SSFMGYKA64ZFHGLLJG3EA/cnnvd
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VXEAOEANNIVYANTMOJ42NKSU6BGNBULZ/cnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-18888cnnvd
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155403/Debian-Security-Advisory-4573-1.htmlcnnvd
- https://symfony.com/blog/cve-2019-18888-prevent-argument-injection-in-a-mimetypeguessercnnvd
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