GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Packagist
GHSA-c2p3-7m5p-cv8x Symfony hardened the parser when handling untrusted input
LOW
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-45133
- Ecosystem
- Packagist
- Packages
- symfony/yaml, symfony/symfony
- Severity
- Low
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U
- Weaknesses
- CWE-1333, CWE-674, CWE-776
- Reviewed
- 2026-05-27
Affected packages
• Packagist symfony/yaml: < 5.4.52 → fixed in 5.4.52
• Packagist symfony/symfony: < 5.4.52 → fixed in 5.4.52
• Packagist symfony/symfony: >= 6.0.0, < 6.4.40 → fixed in 6.4.40
• Packagist symfony/symfony: >= 7.0.0, < 7.4.12 → fixed in 7.4.12
• Packagist symfony/symfony: >= 8.0.0, < 8.0.12 → fixed in 8.0.12
• Packagist symfony/yaml: >= 6.0.0, < 6.4.40 → fixed in 6.4.40
• Packagist symfony/yaml: >= 7.0.0, < 7.4.12 → fixed in 7.4.12
• Packagist symfony/yaml: >= 8.0.0, < 8.0.12 → fixed in 8.0.12
Description
Description
`Symfony\Component\Yaml\Parser` is the entry point for parsing YAML strings into PHP values via `Yaml::parse()`. When the parser is exposed to attacker-controlled input, deeply nested mappings or sequences cause both the block-level (`Parser::parseBlock()`) and inline (`Inline::parseSequence()` / `Inline::parseMapping()`) parsers to recurse without a depth limit. A crafted document exhausts the PHP stack and crashes the worker.
Resolution
The `Parser` now tracks recursion depth in a shared `ParserState` object across both block-level and inline parsing, with a default limit of 128. The limit is configurable via a new `$maxNestingLevel` argument on `Parser::__construct()`, `Yaml::parse()` and `Yaml::parseFile()`.
The patch for this issue is available here for branch 5.4.
Credits
Symfony would like to thank Pietro Tirenna (Shielder) for reporting the issue and Nicolas Grekas for fixing it.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-45133 Symfony is a PHP framework for web and console applications and a set of reusable PHP components. vulnerability
References
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/security/advisories/GHSA-c2p3-7m5p-cv8x web
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/commit/914f427ed9630ddb3904dafba763e53d9f133fe3 web
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/symfony/symfony/CVE-2026-45133.yaml web
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/symfony/yaml/CVE-2026-45133.yaml web
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony package
- https://symfony.com/cve-2026-45133 web