Symfony 2.7.0 < 4.0.10 - Denial of Service

EDB-ID:

44768

CVE:

N/A




Platform:

PHP

Date:

2018-05-26


The PDOSessionHandler class allows to store sessions on a PDO connection. Under some configurations (see below) and with a well-crafted payload, it was possible to do a denial of service on a Symfony application without too much resources.

An application is vulnerable when:

- It is using PDOSessionHandler to store its sessions;

- And it uses MySQL as a backend for sessions managed by PDOSessionHandler;

- And the SQL mode does not contain STRICT_ALL_TABLES or STRICT_TRANS_TABLES (check via SELECT @@sql_mode).

POC:
https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb-bin-sploits/-/raw/main/bin-sploits/44768.tgz