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GHSA-j8gj-9rm5-4xhx

Symfony's Cas2Handler Derives CAS service URL from Client Host Header → Cross-Service Ticket Replay

Quick fix

GHSA-j8gj-9rm5-4xhx — symfony/security-http: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

composer require symfony/security-http:^7.4.12

Details

`Cas2Handler` builds this `service` parameter from `Request::getSchemeAndHttpHost()`, which reflects the attacker-controlled HTTP `Host` header whenever Symfony's `framework.trusted_hosts` setting is not configured (the default). An attacker who controls any *other* application registered with the same CAS server can replay a victim's ticket against the Symfony application, with a spoofed `Host` header, and be authenticated as that victim.

### Resolution

A new required `service_url` configuration option is introduced on `Cas2Handler`. The CAS `service` parameter sent to the validation endpoint is now built from this configured URL instead of being derived from the request's `Host` header, preventing cross-service ticket replay via Host header spoofing.

The patch for this issue is available [here](https://github.com/symfony/symfony/commit/5ba145dba702404801bdf9e7e8d6df170060d541) for branch 7.4.

### Credits

Symfony would like to thank Claude Mythos Preview (via Project Glasswing) for reporting the issue and Nicolas Grekas for providing the fix.

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Affected packages

Packagist/symfony/security-http
Introduced in: 7.1.0Fixed in: 7.4.12
Fixcomposer require symfony/security-http:^7.4.12
Packagist/symfony/security-http
Introduced in: 8.0.0Fixed in: 8.0.12
Fixcomposer require symfony/security-http:^8.0.12
Packagist/symfony/symfony
Introduced in: 7.1.0Fixed in: 7.4.12
Fixcomposer require symfony/symfony:^7.4.12
Packagist/symfony/symfony
Introduced in: 8.0.0Fixed in: 8.0.12
Fixcomposer require symfony/symfony:^8.0.12

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