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🛡️ CVE-2024-51736 — symfony

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-77 NVD
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

Symfony vulnerable to command execution hijack on Windows with Process class

Description

On Windows, when an executable file named cmd.exe is located in the current working directory it will be called by the Process class when preparing command arguments, leading to possible hijacking.

Resolution

The Process class now uses the absolute path to cmd.exe.

The patch for this issue is available [here](https://github.com/symfony/symfony/commit/18ecd03eda3917fdf901a48e72518f911c64a1c9) for branch 5.4.

Credits

We would like to thank Jordi Boggiano for reporting the issue and Nicolas Grekas for providing the fix.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, 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 none, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:N

  • Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: None.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-51736 is classified as CWE-77: Command Injection. User input is placed into a command that the system interprets, allowing extra commands to be appended to the intended one.

Affected software

CVE-2024-51736 is recorded against 3 packages.

  • symfony (from 7.0.0 up to 7.1.7)
  • symfony/process (from 7.0.0 up to 7.1.7)
  • symfony/symfony (from 7.0.0 up to 7.1.7)

Timeline and source

Published on 6 November 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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Other advisories for this package

symfony has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-77: Command Injection) in other software:

Details

Severity NONE
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-77
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-11-06
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
symfony 7.0.0 7.1.7
symfony/process 7.0.0 7.1.7
symfony/symfony 7.0.0 7.1.7

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