GHSA-59f3-vp2f-mp9w
Symfony's Mailtrap Mailer Webhook Parser Never Verifies the X-Mt-Signature HMAC — Unauthenticated Webhook Event Injection
Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Packagist | symfony/mailtrap-mailer | >= 7.2.0, < 7.4.12 | 7.4.12 |
| Packagist | symfony/mailtrap-mailer | >= 8.0.0, < 8.0.12 | 8.0.12 |
| Packagist | symfony/symfony | >= 7.2.0, < 7.4.12 | 7.4.12 |
| Packagist | symfony/symfony | >= 8.0.0, < 8.0.12 | 8.0.12 |
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### Description
The Mailtrap mailer bridge ships a webhook request parser used to authenticate and decode the event callbacks Mailtrap POSTs to an application's webhook endpoint. Its `doParse(Request $request, #[\SensitiveParameter] string $secret)` method receives the configured webhook secret but never reads it; it decodes and returns the payload unconditionally, ignoring the `X-Mt-Signature` HMAC header Mailtrap sends with each request.
As a result, an application that wires up the Mailtrap webhook endpoint accepts **any** POST to that URL, even when a signing secret is configured (the recommended setup). An attacker who knows the endpoint exists can submit forged event payloads, fake delivery / bounce / open / click / spam events, leading to suppression-list corruption, delivery-metrics fraud, etc.
### Resolution
`MailtrapRequestParser::doParse()` now requires and verifies the `X-Mt-Signature` header, an HMAC-SHA256 of the raw request body keyed with the configured secret, before decoding the payload, using a constant-time comparison.
When no secret is configured the behaviour is unchanged: signature verification remains opt-in, but it is now actually enforced once opted in.
The patch for this issue is available [here](https://github.com/symfony/symfony/commit/4e0467e4e182cf2e704a3d9e1bc1a6be65d52ab8) for branch 7.4.
### Credits
Symfony would like to thank Himanshu Anand for reporting the issue and Alexandre Daubois providing the fix.
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/security/advisories/GHSA-59f3-vp2f-mp9w
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/commit/4e0467e4e182cf2e704a3d9e1bc1a6be65d52ab8
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/symfony/mailtrap-mailer/CVE-2026-45755.yaml
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/symfony/symfony/CVE-2026-45755.yaml
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony
- https://symfony.com/cve-2026-45755