GHSA-qw36-p97w-vcqr

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    GHSA-qw36-p97w-vcqr

    Published: 24 Nov 2021Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary: Cookie persistence after password changes in symfony/security-bundle

    Details: Description ----------- Since the rework of the Remember me cookie in Symfony 5.3, the cookie is not invalidated anymore when the user changes its password. Attackers can therefore maintain their access to the account even if the password is changed as long as they have had the chance to login once and get a valid remember me cookie. Resolution ---------- Symfony now makes the password part of the signature by default. In that way, when the password changes then the cookie is not valid anymore. The patch for this issue is available [here](https://github.com/symfony/symfony/commit/36a808b857cd3240244f4b224452fb1e70dc6dfc) for branch 5.3. Credits ------- We would like to thank Thibaut Decherit for reporting the issue and Wouter J for fixing the issue.

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: symfony/security-bundle

    Purl: pkg:composer/symfony/security-bundle

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 5.3.0
    Fixed -5.3.12

    Affected versions

    v5.3.0
    v5.3.11
    v5.3.2
    v5.3.3
    v5.3.4
    v5.3.7
    v5.3.8

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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