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CVE-2013-4752

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-01-02 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Symfony 2.0.X before 2.0.24, 2.1.X before 2.1.12, 2.2.X before 2.2.5, and 2.3.X before 2.3.3 have an issue in the HttpFoundation component. The Host header can be manipulated by an attacker when the framework is generating an absolute URL. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to inject malicious content into the Web application page and conduct various attacks.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 18, 19
• symfony: from 2.0.0 before 2.0.24; from 2.1.0 before 2.1.12; from 2.2.0 before 2.2.5; from 2.3.0 before 2.3.3 — fixed in 2.0.24, 2.1.12, 2.2.5, 2.3.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: symfony 2.0.24, 2.1.12, 2.2.5, 2.3.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-August/114450.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-August/114461.html
• http://symfony.com/blog/security-releases-symfony-2-0-24-2-1-12-2-2-5-and-2-3-3-released
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/61715
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2013-4752
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/86365
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/86366
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/86367
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/86368
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/86369
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/86370
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/86371

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