CVE-2017-16652
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.…
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Description
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium6.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.77% · top 44% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.1.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Packagistsymfony/securityGHSA-r7p7-qr7p-2rrf (opens in a new tab)
- Packagistsymfony/security-httpGHSA-r7p7-qr7p-2rrf (opens in a new tab)
- Packagistsymfony/symfonyGHSA-r7p7-qr7p-2rrf (opens in a new tab)
References (2)
- https://symfony.com/blog/cve-2017-16652-open-redirect-vulnerability-on-security-handlers (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20190310 [SECURITY] [DLA 1707-1] symfony security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-r7p7-qr7p-2rrf (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .