CVE-2014-5244 — Regex Denial of Service in Http-foundation
Severity
—HIGH
No vectorEPSS
No EPSS data
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedMay 30
Description
Symfony vulnerable to denial of service via a malicious HTTP Host header
All 2.0.X, 2.1.X, 2.2.X, 2.3.X, 2.4.X, and 2.5.X versions of the Symfony HttpFoundation component are affected by this security issue.
This issue has been fixed in Symfony 2.3.19, 2.4.9, and 2.5.4. Note that no fixes are provided for Symfony 2.0, 2.1, and 2.2 as they are not maintained anymore.
Description
When an arbitrarily long hostname is sent by a client, its parsing in `Request::getHost()` can lead to a DoS attack,…