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Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2018-11386

An issue was discovered in the HttpFoundation component in Symfony 2.7.x before 2.7.48, 2.8.x before 2.8.41, 3.3.x before 3.3.17, 3.4.x before 3.4.11, and 4.0.x before 4.0.11. The PDOSessionHandler class allows storing sessions on a PDO connection. Under some configurations and with a well-crafted payload, it was possible to do a denial of service on a Symfony application without too much resources.

Products
symfony
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
3.4.12+dfsg-1
CVEs
CVE-2018-11386
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 00:46 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-11386

core-osv · Original source

Published 13 Jun 2018, 16:29 UTC

An issue was discovered in the HttpFoundation component in Symfony 2.7.x before 2.7.48, 2.8.x before 2.8.41, 3.3.x before 3.3.17, 3.4.x before 3.4.11, and 4.0.x before 4.0.11. The PDOSessionHandler class allows storing sessions on a PDO connection. Under some configurations and with a well-crafted payload, it was possible to do a denial of service on a Symfony application without too much resources.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2018-11386

symfony

Fixed versions: 3.4.12+dfsg-1

symfony

Fixed versions: 3.4.12+dfsg-1

symfony

Fixed versions: 3.4.12+dfsg-1

Complete source record
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      "modified": "2026-10-23T18:03:46.857657244Z",
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        "https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-11386"
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
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