High severity · published Oct 15, 2026
CVE-2026-109449
Symfony: Unbounded Nesting in the Expression Parser Lets Untrusted Expressions Crash the Process
8.7
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In Symfony Expression Language versions prior to 5.4.54, 6.4.48, 7.4.21, and 8.1.9, the parser of the ExpressionLanguage component built its node tree with no bound on its depth. An expression made of tens of thousands of nested unary operators, array literals, binary operators or property accesses crashed the PHP process, while the tree was being freed. #[Assert\ExpressionSyntax] passes the validated value to ExpressionLanguage::lint(), so an application validating expressions written by its users could be crashed by a single request, and so could any code parsing untrusted expressions. This issue affects symfony/expression-language through v5.4.53, v6.0.0-BETA1 through v6.4.47, v7.0.0-BETA1 through v7.4.20, and v8.0.0-BETA1 through v8.1.8.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 32% 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 v6.4.48; v7.0.0-BETA1 before v7.4.21; v8.0.0-BETA1 before v8.1.9 · source: vendor
Affected product
SY
symfony
sensiolabs
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