{"id":"CVE-2019-11325","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2019-11325","generatedAt":"2026-10-29T01:55:29.509Z","title":"The VarExport component incorrectly escapes strings, allowing some specially crafted ones to escalate to execution of arbitrary PHP code.","description":"An issue was discovered in Symfony before 4.2.12 and 4.3.x before 4.3.8. The VarExport component incorrectly escapes strings, allowing some specially crafted ones to escalate to execution of arbitrary PHP code. This is related to symfony/var-exporter.","published":"2019-11-21T23:15:13.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T02:12:43.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":9.8,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-116"],"affected":["sensiolabs/symfony"],"epss":{"score":0.03354,"percentile":0.88631,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (3.35%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/symfony/symfony/releases/tag/v4.3.8","tags":["Release Notes","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/symfony/var-exporter/compare/d8bf442...57e00f3","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://symfony.com/blog/cve-2019-11325-fix-escaping-of-strings-in-varexporter","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://symfony.com/blog/symfony-4-3-8-released","tags":["Release Notes","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/symfony/symfony/releases/tag/v4.3.8","tags":["Release Notes","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/symfony/var-exporter/compare/d8bf442...57e00f3","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://symfony.com/blog/cve-2019-11325-fix-escaping-of-strings-in-varexporter","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://symfony.com/blog/symfony-4-3-8-released","tags":["Release Notes","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-11325","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}