Symfony hardened the parser when handling untrusted input
### Description `Symfony\Component\Yaml\Parser` is the entry point for parsing YAML strings into PHP values via `Yaml::parse()`. When the parser is exposed to attacker-controlled input, deeply nested mappings or sequences cause both the block-level (`Parser::parseBlock()`) and inline (`Inline::parseSequence()` / `Inline::parseMapping()`) parsers to recurse without a depth limit. A crafted document exhausts the PHP stack and crashes the worker. ### Resolution The `Parser` now tracks recursion depth in a shared `ParserState` object across both block-level and inline parsing, with a default limit of **128**. The limit is configurable via a new `$maxNestingLevel` argument on `Parser::__construct()`, `Yaml::parse()` and `Yaml::parseFile()`. The patch for this issue is available [here](https://github.com/symfony/symfony/commit/914f427ed9630ddb3904dafba763e53d9f133fe3) for branch 5.4. ### Credits Symfony would like to thank Pietro Tirenna (Shielder) for reporting the issue and Nicolas Grekas for fixing it.
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Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2026-45133US | high7.5 | — | ||
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, when the parser is exposed to attacke… | ||||
references
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/symfony/symfony/CVE-2026-45133.yamlWEB
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/symfony/yaml/CVE-2026-45133.yamlWEB
- https://github.com/symfony/symfonyPACKAGE
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/commit/914f427ed9630ddb3904dafba763e53d9f133fe3WEB
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/security/advisories/GHSA-c2p3-7m5p-cv8xWEB
- https://symfony.com/cve-2026-45133WEB
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