CVE-2021-41270 CSV Injection in Symfony

2021-11-2419:05:11

CWE-1236

GitHub_M

www.cve.org

symfony

csv injection

security vulnerability

owasp

php

CVSS3

6.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

AI Score

6.8

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

47.3%

JSON

Symfony/Serializer handles serializing and deserializing data structures for Symfony, a PHP framework for web and console applications and a set of reusable PHP components. Symfony versions 4.1.0 before 4.4.35 and versions 5.0.0 before 5.3.12 are vulnerable to CSV injection, also known as formula injection. In Symfony 4.1, maintainers added the opt-in csv_escape_formulas option in the CsvEncoder, to prefix all cells starting with =, +, - or @ with a tab \t. Since then, OWASP added 2 chars in that list: Tab (0x09) and Carriage return (0x0D). This makes the previous prefix char (Tab \t) part of the vulnerable characters, and OWASP suggests using the single quote ' for prefixing the value. Starting with versions 4.4.34 and 5.3.12, Symfony now follows the OWASP recommendations and uses the single quote ' to prefix formulas and add the prefix to cells starting by \t, \r as well as =, +, - and @.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "symfony",
    "vendor": "symfony",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": ">= 4.1.0, < 4.4.35"
      },
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": ">= 5.0.0, < 5.3.12"
      }
    ]
  }
]