CVE-2021-41270

MEDIUM

Symfony <4.4.35 and <5.3.12 - Code Injection

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Symfony/Serializer handles serializing and deserializing data structures for Symfony, a PHP framework for web and console applications and a set of reusable PHP components. Symfony versions 4.1.0 before 4.4.35 and versions 5.0.0 before 5.3.12 are vulnerable to CSV injection, also known as formula injection. In Symfony 4.1, maintainers added the opt-in `csv_escape_formulas` option in the `CsvEncoder`, to prefix all cells starting with `=`, `+`, `-` or `@` with a tab `\t`. Since then, OWASP added 2 chars in that list: Tab (0x09) and Carriage return (0x0D). This makes the previous prefix char (Tab `\t`) part of the vulnerable characters, and OWASP suggests using the single quote `'` for prefixing the value. Starting with versions 4.4.34 and 5.3.12, Symfony now follows the OWASP recommendations and uses the single quote `'` to prefix formulas and add the prefix to cells starting by `\t`, `\r` as well as `=`, `+`, `-` and `@`.

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0087
EPSS Percentile 75.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-1236
Status published
Products (5)
fedoraproject/fedora 34
fedoraproject/fedora 35
sensiolabs/symfony 4.1.0 - 4.4.35
symfony/serializer 5.0.0 - 5.3.12Packagist
symfony/symfony 4.1.0 - 4.4.35Packagist
Published Nov 24, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026