GHSA-2v3c-qxhr-7vpv
Symfony: Unbounded Recursion in the YAML Inline Lexer Lets a Single Document Crash the Process
Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Packagist | symfony/symfony | >= 2.0.0, < 5.4.54 | 5.4.54 |
| Packagist | symfony/symfony | >= 6.0.0, < 6.4.45 | 6.4.45 |
| Packagist | symfony/symfony | >= 7.0.0, < 7.4.18 | 7.4.18 |
| Packagist | symfony/symfony | >= 8.0.0, < 8.1.6 | 8.1.6 |
| Packagist | symfony/yaml | >= 2.0.0, < 5.4.54 | 5.4.54 |
| Packagist | symfony/yaml | >= 6.0.0, < 6.4.45 | 6.4.45 |
| Packagist | symfony/yaml | >= 7.0.0, < 7.4.18 | 7.4.18 |
| Packagist | symfony/yaml | >= 8.0.0, < 8.1.6 | 8.1.6 |
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### Description
`Yaml\Parser::lexInlineStructure()` recursed through `lexInlineMapping()` and `lexInlineSequence()` for every `{` and `[` of an inline collection, without entering the nesting level that the rest of the parser bounds with `maxNestingLevel`. A document made of deeply nested inline collections, such as `[[[[...]]]]`, exhausted the stack while it was being lexed: depending on the PHP version and its stack settings, the process crashed or the request ended with a fatal error.
Any code parsing untrusted YAML is affected. That includes `#[MapRequestPayload]` when the Yaml component is installed and the endpoint does not restrict `acceptFormat`: a single unauthenticated request with a YAML content type is enough.
### Resolution
The inline lexer now enters and leaves the same nesting level as the rest of the parser, so nested inline collections are bounded by `maxNestingLevel`, and the parser raises a `ParseException` beyond it.
The patches for this issue are available [here](https://github.com/symfony/symfony/commit/2a8bf9c58d862b0c76a35ce288d1ba6a27223aad) for branch 5.4 (and forward-ported to 6.4, 7.4, 8.1 and 8.2).
### Credits
We would like to thank Nicolas Grekas for reporting the issue and providing the fix.
### References
- Fix: [#65688](https://github.com/symfony/symfony/pull/65688)
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/security/advisories/GHSA-2v3c-qxhr-7vpv
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-109413
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/pull/65688
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/commit/116287c3b5bc057e7a0420d2e52d384e14ea9417
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/commit/2a8bf9c58d862b0c76a35ce288d1ba6a27223aad
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/commit/8fb436fed9658a79d220e9f2b1ba8a2095559018
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/commit/ab61e6cfd35042f16840a00f485eab2481dd4c2a
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/symfony/symfony/CVE-2026-109413.yaml
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/symfony/yaml/CVE-2026-109413.yaml
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/releases/tag/v5.4.54
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/releases/tag/v6.4.45
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/releases/tag/v7.4.18
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/releases/tag/v8.1.6
- https://symfony.com/blog/cve-2026-109413-unbounded-recursion-in-the-yaml-inline-lexer-lets-a-single-document-crash-the-process
- https://symfony.com/cve-2026-109413