The CachingHttpClient
class from the HttpClient Symfony component relies on the HttpCache
class to handle requests. HttpCache
uses internal headers like X-Body-Eval
and X-Body-File
to control the restoration of cached responses. The class was initially written with surrogate caching and ESI support in mind (all HTTP calls come from a trusted backend in that scenario). But when used by CachingHttpClient
and if an attacker can control the response for a request being made by the CachingHttpClient
, remote code execution is possible.
HTTP headers designed for internal use in HttpCache
are now stripped from remote responses before being passed to HttpCache
.
The patch for this issue is available here for the 4.4 branch.
I would like to thank Matthias Pigulla (webfactory GmbH) for reporting and fixing the issue.
{ "nvd_published_at": "2020-09-02T18:15:00Z", "cwe_ids": [ "CWE-212" ], "severity": "HIGH", "github_reviewed": true, "github_reviewed_at": "2020-09-02T17:29:29Z" }