CVE-2019-18888
An issue was discovered in Symfony 2.8.0 through 2.8.50, 3.4.0 through 3.4.34, 4.2.0 through 4.2.11, and 4.3.0 through 4.3.7. If an…
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
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- mitre
Description
An issue was discovered in Symfony 2.8.0 through 2.8.50, 3.4.0 through 3.4.34, 4.2.0 through 4.2.11, and 4.3.0 through 4.3.7. If an application passes unvalidated user input as the file for which MIME type validation should occur, then arbitrary arguments are passed to the underlying file command. This is related to symfony/http-foundation (and symfony/mime in 4.3.x).
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 9 days later
· 9 days later
Published
- 5 years later
· 5 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.2% · top 17% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Packagistsymfony/http-foundationGHSA-xhh6-956q-4q69 (opens in a new tab)
- Packagistsymfony/mimeGHSA-xhh6-956q-4q69 (opens in a new tab)
- Packagistsymfony/symfonyGHSA-xhh6-956q-4q69 (opens in a new tab)
References (6)
- https://symfony.com/blog/symfony-4-3-8-released (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/releases/tag/v4.3.8 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://symfony.com/blog/cve-2019-18888-prevent-argument-injection-in-a-mimetypeguesser (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2019-9c2ad3b018 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2019-5ae4fd9203 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2019-8b0ba02338 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_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-xhh6-956q-4q69 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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