CVE-2019-18888

An issue was discovered in Symfony 2.8.0 through 2.8.50, 3.4.0 through 3.4.34, 4.2.0 through 4.2.11, and 4.3.0 through 4.3.7. If an application passes unvalidated user input as the file for which MIME type validation should occur, then arbitrary arguments are passed to the underlying file command. This is related to symfony/http-foundation (and symfony/mime in 4.3.x).

• CWE-88

• https://github.com/symfony/symfony/releases/tag/v4.3.8Release Notes
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DZNXRVHDQBNZQUCNRVZICPPBFRAUWUJX/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UED22BOXTL2SSFMGYKA64ZFHGLLJG3EA/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VXEAOEANNIVYANTMOJ42NKSU6BGNBULZ/
• https://symfony.com/blog/cve-2019-18888-prevent-argument-injection-in-a-mimetypeguesserVendor Advisory
• https://symfony.com/blog/symfony-4-3-8-releasedRelease Notes
• https://github.com/symfony/symfony/releases/tag/v4.3.8Release Notes
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DZNXRVHDQBNZQUCNRVZICPPBFRAUWUJX/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UED22BOXTL2SSFMGYKA64ZFHGLLJG3EA/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VXEAOEANNIVYANTMOJ42NKSU6BGNBULZ/
• https://symfony.com/blog/cve-2019-18888-prevent-argument-injection-in-a-mimetypeguesserVendor Advisory
• https://symfony.com/blog/symfony-4-3-8-releasedRelease Notes

Published

Nov 21, 2019

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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