Symfony has a UrlGenerator Route-Requirement Bypass via Unanchored Regex Alternation → Off-Site //host URL Injection
### Description Symfony routes can declare a requirements regex per path parameter, e.g. a route `/{_locale}/blog` with `requirements: { _locale: 'en|fr|de' }`. The Twig `path()` / `url()` helpers (backed by `UrlGenerator`) validate supplied parameter values against that regex before building the URL. UrlGenerator constructs the validation pattern as `'#^'.$req.'$#'`, where `$req` is the raw requirement string. For a requirement expressed as an alternation, e.g. `_locale: 'ar|bg|...|vi|...|zh_CN'` (very common), `^` and `$` anchor only the first and last alternatives, so any middle alternative matches as an unanchored substring. A value like `/evil.com` satisfies the requirement (because it contains `vi`), and the generated path becomes `//evil.com/...`: a protocol-relative URL the browser navigates off-site. ### Resolution The `UrlGenerator` class now wraps the requirement in a non-capturing group so the `^` and `$` anchors apply to the whole alternation. The patch for this issue is available [here](https://github.com/symfony/symfony/commit/bcf487c22f3240ba994124e0e0fe8616f3cfc47a) for branch 5.4. ### Credits Symfony would like to thank Claude Mythos Preview (via Project Glasswing) for reporting the issue and providing the fix.
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Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2026-45065US | medium6.1 | — | ||
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, UrlGenerator validates route paramete… | ||||
references
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/symfony/routing/CVE-2026-45065.yamlWEB
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/symfony/symfony/CVE-2026-45065.yamlWEB
- https://github.com/symfony/symfonyPACKAGE
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/commit/bcf487c22f3240ba994124e0e0fe8616f3cfc47aWEB
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/security/advisories/GHSA-72xp-p242-47p9WEB
- https://symfony.com/cve-2026-45065WEB
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