Critical
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in Symfony 3.4.0 through 3.4.34, 4.2.0 through 4.2.11, and 4.3.0 through 4.3.7. Serializing certain cache adapter interfaces could result in remote code injection. This is related to symfony/cache.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-18889
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 08:36 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in Symfony 3.4.0 through 3.4.34, 4.2.0 through 4.2.11, and 4.3.0 through 4.3.7. Serializing certain cache adapter interfaces could result in remote code injection. This is related to symfony/cache.
osv:CVE-2019-18889
Complete source record
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