CVE-2012-6432 — symfony/symfony
CVE-2012-6432 is a CWE-264 vulnerability in symfony/symfony. A fix is available for symfony/symfony — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Symfony Access Control Vulnerability
EPSS Exploitation Probability
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) is a daily probability model maintained by FIRST.org. It estimates the likelihood a CVE will be exploited in production environments within the next 30 days, derived from real-world threat intelligence signals.
Real-World Exposure
symfony/symfony🐘symfony/symfony🐘symfony/symfonyReal-time download stats are indexed for npm and PyPI packages. This vulnerability affects Packagist packages — download data is not available via public APIs for these ecosystems.
Description
Symfony 2.0.x before 2.0.20, 2.1.x before 2.1.5, and 2.2-dev, when the internal routes configuration is enabled, allows remote attackers to access arbitrary services via vectors involving a URI beginning with a /_internal substring.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🐘Packagist | symfony/symfony | all versions | No fix |
| 🐘Packagist | symfony/symfony | ≥ 2.0.0&&< 2.0.20 | 2.0.20composer require symfony/symfony:^2.0.20 |
| 🐘Packagist | symfony/symfony | ≥ 2.1.0&&< 2.1.5 | 2.1.5composer require symfony/symfony:^2.1.5 |
Detection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for symfony/symfony, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
No patched version of symfony/symfony has shipped for CVE-2012-6432 yet. Where your build allows, override or pin the dependency away from the vulnerable range, and apply any maintainer-recommended mitigation.
Workarounds
If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.
How O3 protects you
O3 Security's impact-aware SCA analyses which vulnerable code paths your application actually calls, so a match like CVE-2012-6432 can be triaged on real exposure rather than presence alone.
Tailored to CVE-2012-6432. Runtime protection reduces exposure until a permanent patch is applied and verified — it complements patching, it doesn't replace it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2012-6432 in your dependencies?
O3 Security finds CVE-2012-6432 across Packagist dependencies, including transitive ones, and its impact-aware SCA ranks findings by whether your code actually calls the vulnerable path.