GHSA-59f3-vp2f-mp9w
Symfony's Mailtrap Mailer Webhook Parser Never Verifies the X-Mt-Signature HMAC — Unauthenticated Webhook Event Injection
At a glance
- Published
- Updated
- CVE
- CVE-2026-45755
- CVSS_V4
- CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U
Description
### Description The Mailtrap mailer bridge ships a webhook request parser used to authenticate and decode the event callbacks Mailtrap POSTs to an application's webhook endpoint. Its `doParse(Request $request, #[\SensitiveParameter] string $secret)` method receives the configured webhook secret but never reads it; it decodes and returns the payload unconditionally, ignoring the `X-Mt-Signature` HMAC header Mailtrap sends with each request. As a result, an application that wires up the Mailtrap webhook endpoint accepts **any** POST to that URL, even when a signing secret is configured (the recommended setup). An attacker who knows the endpoint exists can submit forged event payloads, fake delivery / bounce / open / click / spam events, leading to suppression-list corruption, delivery-metrics fraud, etc. ### Resolution `MailtrapRequestParser::doParse()` now requires and verifies the `X-Mt-Signature` header, an HMAC-SHA256 of the raw request body keyed with the configured secret, before decoding the payload, using a constant-time comparison. When no secret is configured the behaviour is unchanged: signature verification remains opt-in, but it is now actually enforced once opted in. The patch for this issue is available [here](https://github.com/symfony/symfony/commit/4e0467e4e182cf2e704a3d9e1bc1a6be65d52ab8) for branch 7.4. ### Credits Symfony would like to thank Himanshu Anand for reporting the issue and Alexandre Daubois providing the fix.
Affected packages
| Package | Versions |
|---|---|
| Packagist · symfony/mailtrap-mailer | introduced 7.2.0, fixed 7.4.12 |
| Packagist · symfony/mailtrap-mailer | introduced 8.0.0, fixed 8.0.12 |
| Packagist · symfony/symfony | introduced 7.2.0, fixed 7.4.12 |
| Packagist · symfony/symfony | introduced 8.0.0, fixed 8.0.12 |
References
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/security/advisories/GHSA-59f3-vp2f-mp9w WEB
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/commit/4e0467e4e182cf2e704a3d9e1bc1a6be65d52ab8 WEB
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/symfony/mailtrap-mailer/CVE-2026-45755.yaml WEB
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/symfony/symfony/CVE-2026-45755.yaml WEB
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony PACKAGE
- https://symfony.com/cve-2026-45755 WEB
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| OSV.dev | CC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database |