GHSA-9frc-8383-795m
Symfony's YAML Parser has a ReDoS via Catastrophic Backtracking in Parser::cleanup() Regex
At a glance
- Published
- Updated
- CVE
- CVE-2026-45305
- CVSS_V4
- CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U
Description
### Description `Symfony\Component\Yaml\Parser::cleanup()` strips the optional `%YAML` directive header, leading comments, and document start/end markers before parsing. The original regexes contained overlapping quantifiers, most notably `'#^%YAML[: ][\d.]+.*\n#u'`, whose `[\d.]+` and `.*` overlap on the dot, that exhibit catastrophic backtracking on crafted input. A single oversized `%YAML` directive header (or comment / document-marker line) makes the parser hang for an arbitrarily long time, denying service. ### Resolution The four regexes in `Parser::cleanup()` (YAML directive header, leading comments, document-start marker, document-end marker) have been rewritten with possessive quantifiers and unambiguous character classes so backtracking cannot occur. The patch for this issue is available [here](https://github.com/symfony/symfony/commit/9749cd43c5e09b3735093623670b21b9d8a056cb) for branch 5.4. ### Credits Symfony would like to thank Pietro Tirenna (Shielder) for reporting the issue and Nicolas Grekas for fixing it.
Affected packages
| Package | Versions |
|---|---|
| Packagist · symfony/yaml | introduced 0, fixed 5.4.52 |
| Packagist · symfony/symfony | introduced 0, fixed 5.4.52 |
| Packagist · symfony/symfony | introduced 6.0.0, fixed 6.4.40 |
| Packagist · symfony/symfony | introduced 7.0.0, fixed 7.4.12 |
| Packagist · symfony/symfony | introduced 8.0.0, fixed 8.0.12 |
| Packagist · symfony/yaml | introduced 6.0.0, fixed 6.4.40 |
| Packagist · symfony/yaml | introduced 7.0.0, fixed 7.4.12 |
| Packagist · symfony/yaml | introduced 8.0.0, fixed 8.0.12 |
References
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/security/advisories/GHSA-9frc-8383-795m WEB
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/commit/9749cd43c5e09b3735093623670b21b9d8a056cb WEB
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/symfony/symfony/CVE-2026-45305.yaml WEB
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/symfony/yaml/CVE-2026-45305.yaml WEB
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony PACKAGE
- https://symfony.com/cve-2026-45305 WEB
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| OSV.dev | CC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database |