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GHSA-ph86-p8f6-f9r2

Symfony Vulnerable to Identity Spoofing via Unanchored DN Regex in X509Authenticator

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2026-45063

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
Packagist symfony/security-http < 5.4.52 5.4.52
Packagist symfony/security-http >= 6.0.0-BETA1, < 6.4.40 6.4.40
Packagist symfony/security-http >= 7.0.0-BETA1, < 7.4.12 7.4.12
Packagist symfony/security-http >= 8.0.0-BETA1, < 8.0.12 8.0.12
Packagist symfony/symfony < 5.4.52 5.4.52
Packagist symfony/symfony >= 6.0.0-BETA1, < 6.4.40 6.4.40
Packagist symfony/symfony >= 7.0.0-BETA1, < 7.4.12 7.4.12
Packagist symfony/symfony >= 8.0.0-BETA1, < 8.0.12 8.0.12

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

### Description `X509Authenticator` implements client-certificate (mTLS) authentication: the web server validates the client's certificate against a trusted CA, then passes the certificate's Subject DN (Distinguished Name: a string like `CN=Alice,O=Example,[email protected]`) to Symfony via `$_SERVER['SSL_CLIENT_S_DN']`. Symfony extracts the user identifier from that string. The extraction uses an **unanchored** regex that matches `emailAddress=` anywhere in the DN string: including inside the *value* of a different RDN (Relative Distinguished Name: one `key=value` component of the DN), such as `CN`. An attacker who can obtain a certificate from a trusted CA with a free-text `CN` can smuggle `emailAddress=victim@target` inside the CN value and be authenticated as the victim. ### Resolution The `X509Authenticator` now uses a regex that anchors the match to an RDN boundary (start of string, or following a `,` / `/` separator). The patch for this issue is available [here](https://github.com/symfony/symfony/commit/ccb3f724c7ff55670a6fe3521c7bf1514cceb478) for branch 5.4. ### Credits Symfony would like to thank Claude Mythos Preview (via Project Glasswing) for reporting the issue and providing the fix.

References

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