The Symfony Yaml components Inline and Parser, parse some YAML documents inefficiently, so that a small crafted document can take…
CVE-2026-123792
The Symfony Yaml components Inline and Parser, parse some YAML documents inefficiently, so that a small crafted document can take disproportionately long to process, keeping a PHP process busy for seconds or minutes, potentially causing a denial of service in Symfony versions prior to 5.4.56, 6.x prior to 6.4.50, 7.x prior to 7.4.23, and 8.x prior to 8.1.11. The parser repeats work it has already done in several places. An embedded mapping in a flow sequence is parsed again for every scalar appended to it, and so are the collections nested in it, so the parse time grows exponentially with the nesting depth. The patterns matching mapping keys and tags scan a run of spaces once per character of the run, and each scalar of a flow collection is matched against a copy of the rest of the collection, so the parse time grows quadratically with the size of the input. Nested blocks are also copied at each nesting level, which consumes memory as well as time. A few other constructs, such as an empty sequence item followed by a blank line or an anchor named 0, trigger similar repeated work. Any code parsing untrusted YAML is affected, with the default flags. In Symfony 7.4 and later, that…
Assessment
- CVSS
- 8.7 (v4.0)
- Severity
- High
- Known exploited
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Exploit availability
- Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
- Published
- 6 November 2026
- Last updated
- 6 November 2026
- Affected
- sensiolabs · symfony
- Assigner
- Checkmarx
CVSS vectorCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
At the source
References
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/security/advisories/GHSA-hwfg-qwvh-2wfx
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/commit/487f63bf2cacebc8ed8273c5c10d92955acd2402
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/commit/08db22d52e5d3e6ec2f5c50db30a4d818100ffb9
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/commit/49e03035eda3000e978a4612db74900013255ccd
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