CVE-2026-109449 PUBLISHED

Symfony: Unbounded Nesting in the Expression Parser Lets Untrusted Expressions Crash the Process

Assigner: Checkmarx
Reserved: 12.10.2026 Published: 15.10.2026 Updated: 15.10.2026

In Symfony Expression Language versions prior to 5.4.54, 6.4.48, 7.4.21, and 8.1.9, the parser of the ExpressionLanguage component built its node tree with no bound on its depth. An expression made of tens of thousands of nested unary operators, array literals, binary operators or property accesses crashed the PHP process, while the tree was being freed.

<h1>[Assert\ExpressionSyntax] passes the validated value to ExpressionLanguage::lint(), so an application validating expressions written by its users could be crashed by a single request, and so could any code parsing untrusted expressions.</h1>

This issue affects symfony/expression-language through v5.4.53, v6.0.0-BETA1 through v6.4.47, v7.0.0-BETA1 through v7.4.20, and v8.0.0-BETA1 through v8.1.8.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 8.7

Product Status

Vendor sensiolabs
Product symfony
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to v5.4.54 (excl.)
  • affected from v6.0.0-BETA1 to v6.4.48 (excl.)
  • affected from v7.0.0-BETA1 to v7.4.21 (excl.)
  • affected from v8.0.0-BETA1 to v8.1.9 (excl.)

Credits

  • Nicolas Grekas remediation developer

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion CWE