UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16652

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16652

    Published: 13 Jun 2018Last Modified: 24 Oct 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-16652

    Summary:

    Details: An issue was discovered in Symfony 2.7.x before 2.7.38, 2.8.x before 2.8.31, 3.2.x before 3.2.14, and 3.3.x before 3.3.13. DefaultAuthenticationSuccessHandler or DefaultAuthenticationFailureHandler takes the content of the _target_path parameter and generates a redirect response, but no check is performed on the path, which could be an absolute URL to an external domain. This Open redirect vulnerability can be exploited for example to mount effective phishing attacks.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-16652, https://symfony.com/blog/cve-2017-16652-open-redirect-vulnerability-on-security-handlers, https://github.com/symfony/symfony/pull/24995, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-16652

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: symfony

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    2.7.1+dfsg-1
    2.7.5+dfsg-1
    2.7.9+dfsg-1
    2.7.9+dfsg-1ubuntu2
    2.7.10-0ubuntu2

    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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