CVE-2013-5958: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

December 27, 2014 (updated December 29, 2014)

The Security component in Symfony allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long password that triggers an expensive hash computation, as demonstrated by a PBKDF2 computation, a similar issue to CVE-2013-5750.

References

github.com/symfony/polyfill/pull/155

Code Behaviors & Features

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