GHSA-vqc8-7275-q272
Symfony has Email Header Injection via Non-Token Characters in Mime Parameter Names
Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Packagist | symfony/mime | < 5.4.52 | 5.4.52 |
| Packagist | symfony/symfony | < 5.4.52 | 5.4.52 |
| Packagist | symfony/mime | >= 6.0.0, < 6.4.40 | 6.4.40 |
| Packagist | symfony/mime | >= 7.0.0, < 7.4.12 | 7.4.12 |
| Packagist | symfony/mime | >= 8.0.0, < 8.0.12 | 8.0.12 |
| 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 |
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### Description
`Symfony\Component\Mime\Header\ParameterizedHeader` (and the related parameter handling reachable from `Symfony\Component\Mime\Header\Headers`) is responsible for serializing structured headers such as `Content-Type` and `Content-Disposition`, which carry `key=value` parameters (e.g. `Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="x"`).
RFC 2045 / RFC 5322 require parameter *names* to be `tokens`: a restricted ASCII subset that excludes whitespace, CR/LF, and the `tspecials` set. Symfony's parameter handling validates and properly encodes parameter *values*, but does not validate parameter *names*: the supplied name is emitted verbatim into the serialized header.
A caller that derives a parameter name from untrusted input, e.g. an application that lets a user influence a `Content-Disposition` parameter name, can include `\r\n` or other non-token bytes inside the name, terminating the current header and injecting additional headers in the rendered message. This is the classic CRLF / header-injection primitive applied to the parameter-name slot.
### Resolution
`ParameterizedHeader` now rejects parameter names that contain bytes outside the RFC `token` character class.
The patch for this issue is available [here](https://github.com/symfony/symfony/commit/e62ea217f8b4ca8ae922ad0f949e0c4dc1f9b613) for branch 5.4.
### Credits
Symfony would like to thank Fabian Fleischer for reporting the issue and Alexandre Daubois for fixing it.
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/security/advisories/GHSA-vqc8-7275-q272
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/symfony/mime/CVE-2026-45070.yaml
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/symfony/symfony/CVE-2026-45070.yaml
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony
- https://symfony.com/cve-2026-45070