CVE-2013-5958: Symfony Denial of Service Via Long Password Hashing

medium Affects symfony/polyfill, symfony/polyfill-php55, symfony/security, symfony/symfony. Feed 2026.10.29.1, updated 2026-10-28; published 2022-05-17; advisory modified 2024-12-08.

Symfony Denial of Service Via Long Password Hashing

Package: symfony/polyfill Composer
Affected versions: >=1.0.0 and <1.10.0
Fixed in: 1.10.0
Severity: medium
Exploitation: not on CISA KEV · EPSS 2% (79.2th percentile)
Published: 2022-05-17
Source: osv.dev

References

Possible DOS attack with long user-submitted passwords (correct fix for CVE-2013-5958)

Package: symfony/polyfill-php55 Composer
Affected versions: >=1.0.0 and <1.10.0
Fixed in: 1.10.0
Severity: unknown
Exploitation: not on CISA KEV · EPSS 2% (79.2th percentile)
Source: friendsofphp

References

https://github.com/symfony/polyfill/pull/155

Symfony Denial of Service Via Long Password Hashing

Package: symfony/security Composer
Affected versions: >=2.0.0 and <2.0.25 or >=2.1.0 and <2.1.13 or >=2.2.0 and <2.2.9 or >=2.3.0 and <2.3.6
Fixed in: 2.0.25, 2.1.13, 2.2.9, 2.3.6
Severity: medium
Exploitation: not on CISA KEV · EPSS 2% (79.2th percentile)
Published: 2022-05-17
Source: osv.dev

References

Symfony Denial of Service Via Long Password Hashing

Package: symfony/symfony Composer
Affected versions: >=2.0.0 and <2.0.25 or >=2.1.0 and <2.1.13 or >=2.2.0 and <2.2.9 or >=2.3.0 and <2.3.6
Fixed in: 2.0.25, 2.1.13, 2.2.9, 2.3.6
Severity: medium
Exploitation: not on CISA KEV · EPSS 2% (79.2th percentile)
Published: 2022-05-17
Source: osv.dev

References

CWE-789

NVD record symfony/polyfill advisories symfony/polyfill-php55 advisories symfony/security advisories symfony/symfony advisories

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