High severity · published Oct 15, 2026
CVE-2026-109413
Symfony: Unbounded Recursion in the YAML Inline Lexer Lets a Single Document Crash the Process
8.7
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In Symfony YAML prior to versions 5.4.54, 6.4.45, 7.4.18, and 8.1.6, Yaml\Parser::lexInlineStructure() recursed through lexInlineMapping() and lexInlineSequence() for every { and [ of an inline collection, without entering the nesting level that the rest of the parser bounds with maxNestingLevel. A document made of deeply nested inline collections, such as [[[[...]]]], exhausted the stack while it was being lexed: depending on the PHP version and its stack settings, the process crashed or the request ended with a fatal error. Any code parsing untrusted YAML is affected. That includes #[MapRequestPayload] when the Yaml component is installed and the endpoint does not restrict acceptFormat: a single unauthenticated request with a YAML content type is enough. This issue affects symfony/yaml through v5.4.53, v6.0.0-BETA1 through v6.4.44, v7.0.0-BETA1 through v7.4.17, and v8.0.0-BETA1 through v8.1.5.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 34% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
SY
symfony · sensiolabs
before v5.4.54; v6.0.0-BETA1 before v6.4.45; v7.0.0-BETA1 before v7.4.18; v8.0.0-BETA1 before v8.1.6 · source: vendor
Affected product
SY
symfony
sensiolabs
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