Shopware's session is persistent in Cache for 404 pages

Description

Impact

The Symfony Session Handler, pop's the Session Cookie and assign it to the Response. Since Shopware 6.5.8.0 the 404 pages, are cached, to improve the performance of 404 pages. So the cached Response, contains a Session Cookie when the Browser accessing the 404 page, has no cookies yet. The Symfony Session Handler is in use, when no explicit Session configuration has been done.
When Redis is in use for Sessions using the PHP Redis extension, this exploiting code is not used.

Patches

Update to Shopware version 6.5.8.7

Workarounds

Using Redis for Sessions, as this does not trigger the exploit code. Example configuration for Redis

# php.ini
session.save_handler = redis
session.save_path = "tcp://127.0.0.1:6379"

Consequences

As an guest browser session has been cached on a 404 page, every missing image or directly reaching a 404 page will logout the customer or clear his cart.

Basic information

Type
reviewed
Severity
high
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Published (advisory)
2024-03-06 15:06:54 UTC
Updated
2026-02-17 22:02:26 UTC
GitHub reviewed
2024-03-06 15:06:54 UTC
NVD published
2024-03-06

EPSS Score

Score Percentile
0.12% 30.49%

CVSS Scores

Base score Version Severity Vector
7.5 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:H)
They could widely tamper with or forge data—trust in the data is badly hurt.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.

Identifiers

CWEs

CWE id Name
CWE-524 Use of Cache Containing Sensitive Information

Credits

  • sunnypatell (analyst)

Affected packages (2)

Vulnerable version ranges and first patched releases as published by GitHub.

Ecosystem Package Vulnerable range First patched Vulnerable functions
composer shopware/storefront >= 6.5.8.0, < 6.5.8.7 6.5.8.7
composer shopware/platform >= 6.5.8.0, < 6.5.8.7 6.5.8.7

References

cvelogic Threat Intelligence