Symphony
CVE-2016-4309
HIGH
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A06:2025 - Insecure Design
ASVS 5.0
V15 - Secure Coding and Architecture Concurrency control, locking
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Privilege Escalation The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, high complexity, no privileges required, user interaction required. Public proof-of-concept exploit code is available. EPSS exploitation probability: 19.13%. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | This vulnerability can be exploited remotely over the network. Successful exploitation could compromise the high-severity affected system. |
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Session fixation vulnerability in Symphony CMS 2.6.7, when session.use_only_cookies is disabled, allows remote attackers to hijack web sessions via the PHPSESSID parameter. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required. Public exploit code available and EPSS exploitation probability 19.1%.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Apply vendor patches when available. Implement network segmentation and monitoring as interim mitigations.
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This vulnerability is classified under CWE-362. Session fixation vulnerability in Symphony CMS 2.6.7, when session.use_only_cookies is disabled, allows remote attackers to hijack web sessions via the PHPSESSID parameter. Affected products include: Getsymphony Symphony.
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AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionCVE.org
Session fixation vulnerability in Symphony CMS 2.6.7, when session.use_only_cookies is disabled, allows remote attackers to hijack web sessions via the PHPSESSID parameter.
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Attack Technique
Information disclosure occurs when an application unintentionally exposes sensitive data that aids attackers in reconnaissance or directly compromises security.
Race conditions occur when multiple concurrent requests exploit the brief time gap between checking a condition and acting upon it (TOCTOU - Time of Check, Time of Use).
Affected Products (CPE)CVE.org
Remote Code Execution vulnerability in symphony/content/content.blueprintsdatasources.php in Symphony CMS through 2.6.11
An issue in symphony v.3.6.3 and before allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via the log4j component. Rate
b3log Symphony (aka Sym) 2.6.0 allows remote attackers to upload and execute arbitrary JSP files via the name[] paramete
A XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability was discovered in symphony\lib\toolkit\class.xmlelement.php in Symphony 2.7.10
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Symphony CMS before 2.3.2 allows remote attackers to hijack the authe
SQL injection vulnerability in Symphony CMS before 2.3.2 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary SQL comm
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in content/content.systempreferences.php in Symphony CMS before 2.6.
b3log Symphony (aka Sym) 2.2.0 does not properly address XSS in JSON objects, as demonstrated by a crafted userAvatarURL
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Symphony CMS 2.6.3 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web
b3log Symphony (aka Sym) 2.2.0 allows an XSS attack by sending a private letter with a certain /article URI, and a secon
content/content.blueprintsevents.php in Symphony CMS 3.0.0 allows XSS via fields['name'] to appendSubheading. Rated medi
b3log Symphony (aka Sym) before 3.6.0 has XSS via the HTTP User-Agent header. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.1), this vul
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