GHSA-ph86-p8f6-f9r2
Symfony Vulnerable to Identity Spoofing via Unanchored DN Regex in X509Authenticator
Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed 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
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/security/advisories/GHSA-ph86-p8f6-f9r2
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/commit/ccb3f724c7ff55670a6fe3521c7bf1514cceb478
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/symfony/security-http/CVE-2026-45063.yaml
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/symfony/symfony/CVE-2026-45063.yaml
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony
- https://symfony.com/cve-2026-45063