Vulnerability in symfony/html-sanitizer (CVE-2026-45066)
Summary
Vulnerability in symfony/html-sanitizer (CVE-2026-45066). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Exploitable via trusted.com. Mitigation: upgrade to 8.0.12 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
Description
symfony/html-sanitizer lets applications sanitise untrusted HTML. The configuration methods allowLinkHosts([...]) and allowLinkSchemes([...]) are intended to restrict targets to an allowlist of hosts/schemes; `allowMediaHosts()` / `allowMediaSchemes()` do the same for etc.
Three distinct bypasses allow a content author to smuggle off-allowlist URLs past these checks. First, UrlSanitizer::parse() parses the input following RFC-3986, while browsers follow the WHATWG URL Standard which normalises \ to / before parsing the authority of "special" schemes; so an input like https://evil\@trusted.com/ parses with host trusted.com server-side but navigates to https://evil/ in the browser. Second, WHATWG collapses any run of / after the scheme into //, while RFC-3986 does not; so https:/evil.com/ and https:///evil.com/ parse as host-less (skipping the host allowlist) but resolve to evil.com in the browser. Third, UrlAttributeSanitizer checks 'a' === $element to route to the link policy and falls through to the media policy otherwise, but is a navigable hyperlink equivalent to; so `` was sanitised against the media policy (which typically allows data: and may have no host allowlist), bypassing allowLinkHosts() / allowLinkSchemes() entirely.
Resolution
UrlSanitizer::sanitize() now rejects URLs that contain a backslash or that use a special scheme (http, https, ftp, ws, wss) followed by a single slash or…
Source: GitHub Security Advisories (Global) NVD GitHub Advisory
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-45066 has been found in symfony/html-sanitizer.
Attackers can target a specific entry point like trusted.com over the network to misuse the product.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 6.1/10.
What to do: upgrade symfony/html-sanitizer to 8.0.12 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "symfony/html-sanitizer CVE-2026-45066" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2026-45066 (symfony/html-sanitizer) — CWE-184 / CVSS v3 6.1
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated
Attack surface: trusted.com / evil.com / UrlAttributeSanitizer / http
Patched: 8.0.12 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-184) exists in symfony/html-sanitizer. Attackers reach the vulnerable code path via trusted.com without authentication.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of symfony/html-sanitizer. Attack surface: trusted.com / evil.com / UrlAttributeSanitizer / http.
Severity: Medium (CVSS 6.1/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 8.0.12.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'symfony/html-sanitizer' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'symfony/html-sanitizer' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
symfony/html-sanitizerを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade symfony/html-sanitizer to 8.0.12ステージング環境で 8.0.12 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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3Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2026-45066 symfony Fixed in: 6.4.41+dfsg-0+deb13u1
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2026-45066 symfony
References
- package github.com
- patch security-advisories@github.com
- patch security-advisories@github.com
- web github.com
- web github.com
- web symfony.com
- web github.com
- web security-advisories@github.com
- web security-advisories@github.com
- web security-advisories@github.com