CVE-2024-51996
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedSymphony process is a module for the Symphony PHP framework which executes commands in sub-processes. When consuming a persisted remember-me cookie, Symfony does not check if the username persisted in the database matches the username attached with the cookie, leading to authentication bypass. This vulnerability is fixed in 5.4.47, 6.4.15, and 7.1.8.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysisThe mechanism that verifies who a user is can be side-stepped or fooled, letting an attacker act as someone they're not. Everything built on top of that identity then becomes untrustworthy. Fixing it means hardening the full authentication flow, including edge cases, tokens, and secondary paths.
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CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
dbcve · scoped5.4.47 (for 5.4.x) | 6.4.15 (for 6.4.x) | 7.1.8 (for 7.1.x)
- Identify the current Symfony version in use by checking composer.json or composer.lock
- Determine which Symfony branch is in use (5.4.x, 6.4.x, or 7.1.x)
- For Symfony 5.4.x: Run composer require symfony/security-bundle:5.4.47 to upgrade to the fixed version
- For Symfony 6.4.x: Run composer require symfony/security-bundle:6.4.15 to upgrade to the fixed version
- For Symfony 7.1.x: Run composer require symfony/security-bundle:7.1.8 to upgrade to the fixed version
- Run composer update symfony/symfony --with-all-dependencies to apply the changes
- Clear any application caches (e.g., php bin/console cache:clear)
- Verify the remember-me authentication functions correctly and test that usernames are properly validated
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