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CVE-2016-4423

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 1.86% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2016-06-01 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2016-4423
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
1.86%

Original NVD Description

The attemptAuthentication function in Component/Security/Http/Firewall/UsernamePasswordFormAuthenticationListener.php in Symfony before 2.3.41, 2.7.x before 2.7.13, 2.8.x before 2.8.6, and 3.0.x before 3.0.6 does not limit the length of a username stored in a session, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (session storage consumption) via a series of authentication attempts with long, non-existent usernames.