🛡️ CVE-2014-6061 — http-foundation

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-20 OSV

N/A

CVSS Score

0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Symfony has a security issue when parsing the Authorization header

All 2.0.X, 2.1.X, 2.2.X, 2.3.X, 2.4.X, and 2.5.X versions of the Symfony HttpFoundation component are affected by this security issue.

This issue has been fixed in Symfony 2.3.19, 2.4.9, and 2.5.4. Note that no fixes are provided for Symfony 2.0, 2.1, and 2.2 as they are not maintained anymore.

Description

When an application uses an HTTP basic or digest authentication, Symfony does not parse the Authorization header properly, which could be exploited in some server setups (no exploits have been demonstrated though.)

Resolution

The parsing of the Authorization header has been fixed to comply to the HTTP specification.

The patch for this issue is available here: https://github.com/symfony/symfony/pull/11829

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity low, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2014-6061 is classified as CWE-20: Improper Input Validation. The application accepts input without checking that it has the expected form, so malformed values reach code that assumes they are well formed.

Affected software

CVE-2014-6061 is recorded against 2 packages.

symfony/http-foundation (from 2.5.0 up to 2.5.4)
symfony/symfony (from 2.5.0 up to 2.5.4)

Timeline and source

Published on 30 May 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

github.com (Web)
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github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
symfony.com (Web)

Details

Severity Unknown

CVSS Score N/A

CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

CWE CWE-20

Public Exploit ✅ No

Source OSV

Published 2024-05-30

Updated 2026-08-12

Modified 2024-05-30

Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software	From version	Fixed in
symfony/http-foundation	2.5.0	2.5.4
symfony/symfony	2.5.0	2.5.4

References

WEB https://github.com/symfony/symfony/pull/11829

WEB https://github.com/symfony/symfony/commit/3b4046e89467dc1fb5e079e377c2cfd4c239f904

WEB https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/symfony/http-foundation/CVE-2014-6061.yaml

WEB https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/symfony/symfony/CVE-2014-6061.yaml

WEB https://symfony.com/cve-2014-6061

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