CVE-2026-45063
criticalpriority · track · 36EPSS 0.004 · 30 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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, X509Authenticator extracts the user identifier from $_SERVER['SSL_CLIENT_S_DN'] with an unanchored regex that matches emailAddress= anywhere in the distinguished name, allowing an attacker with a trusted certificate containing emailAddress=victim inside another RDN value such as CN to authenticate as the victim. This issue is fixed in versions 5.4.52, 6.4.40, 7.4.12, and 8.0.12.
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- GHSA-ph86-p8f6-f9r2Symfony Vulnerable to Identity Spoofing via Unanchored DN Regex in X509Authenticator2026-05-27ghsa · osvUS
### Description `X509Authenticator` implements client-certificate (mTLS) authentication: the web server validates the client's certificate against a trusted CA, then passes the certificate's Subject DN (Distinguished Name: a string like `CN=Alice,O=Example,emailAddress=alice@example.com`) to Symfony via `$_SERVER['SSL_CLIENT_S_DN']`. Symfony extracts the user identifier from that string. The extraction uses an **unanchored** regex that matches `emailAddress=` anywhere in the DN string: including inside the *value* of a different RDN (Relative Distinguished Name: one `key=value` component of the DN), such as `CN`. An attacker who can obtain a certificate from a trusted CA with a free-text `CN` can smuggle `emailAddress=victim@target` inside the CN value and be authenticated as the victim. ### Resolution The `X509Authenticator` now uses a regex that anchors the match to an RDN boundary (start of string, or following a `,` / `/` separator). The patch for this issue is available [here](https://github.com/symfony/symfony/commit/ccb3f724c7ff55670a6fe3521c7bf1514cceb478) 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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references (19)
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- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/commit/59ef484029601a7af06f5e06c6ed921fdcea5a0dcnnvd
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/releasesPatchcnnvd
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/releases/tag/v5.4.52cnnvd
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/releases/tag/v6.4.40cnnvd
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/releases/tag/v7.4.12cnnvd
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/releases/tag/v8.0.12cnnvd
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/security/advisories/GHSA-ph86-p8f6-f9r2cnnvd
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/commit/59ef484029601a7af06f5e06c6ed921fdcea5a0denisa_euvd
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