Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity Affecting symfony package, versions <7.4.12+dfsg-1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.8% (53rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-SYMFONY-16896294
  • published27 May 2026
  • disclosed14 Jul 2026

Introduced: 27 May 2026

CVE-2026-45305  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1333  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable symfony to version 7.4.12+dfsg-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream symfony package and not the symfony package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

Symfony is a PHP framework for web and console applications and a set of reusable PHP components. Prior to 5.4.52, 6.4.40, 7.4.12, and 8.0.12, Symfony\Component\Yaml\Parser::cleanup() used regular expressions with overlapping quantifiers for YAML directive, comment, and document marker cleanup, allowing crafted input to make parsing hang for an arbitrarily long time. This issue is fixed in versions 5.4.52, 6.4.40, 7.4.12, and 8.0.12.