CVE-2018-11386
Publication date 13 June 2018
Last updated 25 August 2025
Ubuntu priority
Cvss 3 Severity Score
An issue was discovered in the HttpFoundation component in Symfony 2.7.x before 2.7.48, 2.8.x before 2.8.41, 3.3.x before 3.3.17, 3.4.x before 3.4.11, and 4.0.x before 4.0.11. The PDOSessionHandler class allows storing sessions on a PDO connection. Under some configurations and with a well-crafted payload, it was possible to do a denial of service on a Symfony application without too much resources.
Status
Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
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symfony | 18.04 LTS bionic |
Fixed 3.4.6+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1
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16.04 LTS xenial |
Not affected
|
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14.04 LTS trusty | Not in release |
Severity score breakdown
Parameter | Value |
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Base score |
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Attack vector | Network |
Attack complexity | High |
Privileges required | None |
User interaction | None |
Scope | Unchanged |
Confidentiality | None |
Integrity impact | None |
Availability impact | High |
Vector | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
References
Other references
- https://symfony.com/blog/cve-2018-11386-denial-of-service-when-using-pdosessionhandler
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/G4XNBMFW33H47O5TZGA7JYCVLDBCXAJV/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/UBQK7JDXIELADIPGZIOUCZKMAJM5LSBW/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/WU5N2TZFNGXDGMXMPP7LZCWTFLENF6WH/
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-11386