GHSA-c2p3-7m5p-cv8x
Symfony hardened the parser when handling untrusted input
Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Packagist | symfony/yaml | < 5.4.52 | 5.4.52 |
| Packagist | symfony/symfony | < 5.4.52 | 5.4.52 |
| Packagist | symfony/symfony | >= 6.0.0, < 6.4.40 | 6.4.40 |
| Packagist | symfony/symfony | >= 7.0.0, < 7.4.12 | 7.4.12 |
| Packagist | symfony/symfony | >= 8.0.0, < 8.0.12 | 8.0.12 |
| Packagist | symfony/yaml | >= 6.0.0, < 6.4.40 | 6.4.40 |
| Packagist | symfony/yaml | >= 7.0.0, < 7.4.12 | 7.4.12 |
| Packagist | symfony/yaml | >= 8.0.0, < 8.0.12 | 8.0.12 |
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### 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](https://github.com/symfony/symfony/commit/914f427ed9630ddb3904dafba763e53d9f133fe3) for branch 5.4.
### Credits
Symfony would like to thank Pietro Tirenna (Shielder) for reporting the issue and Nicolas Grekas for fixing it.
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/security/advisories/GHSA-c2p3-7m5p-cv8x
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/commit/914f427ed9630ddb3904dafba763e53d9f133fe3
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/symfony/symfony/CVE-2026-45133.yaml
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/symfony/yaml/CVE-2026-45133.yaml
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony
- https://symfony.com/cve-2026-45133