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Prevent cache poisoning via a Response Content-Type header

Moderate
nicolas-grekas published GHSA-mcx4-f5f5-4859 Mar 30, 2020

Package

composer symfony/http-foundation (Composer)

Affected versions

>= 4.4.0, <4.4.7 || >= 5.0.0, <5.0.7

Patched versions

4.4.7, 5.0.7

Description

Description

When a Response does not contain a Content-Type header, Symfony falls back to the format defined in the Accept header of the request, leading to a possible mismatch between the response's content and Content-Type header. When the response is cached, this can lead to a corrupted cache where the cached format is not the right one.

Resolution

Symfony does not use the Accept header anymore to guess the Content-Type.

The patch for this issue is available here for the 4.4 branch.

Credits

I would like to thank Xavier Lacot from JoliCode for reporting & Yonel Ceruto and Tobias Schultze for fixing the issue.

Severity

Moderate

CVE ID

CVE-2020-5255

Weaknesses

No CWEs

Credits