CVE-2026-118514

NameCVE-2026-118514
DescriptionIn Symfony http-foundation prior to versions 5.4.56, 6.4.50, 7.4.23, and 8.1.11, Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\RequestMatcher, and RequestMatcher\MethodRequestMatcher which replaces it from 6.2.x on, matches a request against a list of HTTP methods. These compared the request method to the list verbatim, while the router serves a HEAD request with the GET handler, as HTTP semantics require. This came after the incomplete fix of  CVE-2026-45075 https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6439-2f28-8p8q , which addressed the same gap in the #[IsGranted], #[IsSignatureValid] and #[IsCsrfTokenValid] attributes only. Security rules configured to apply only to GET requests could therefore be bypassed by sending a HEAD request to the same URL. Although HEAD responses contain no body, attackers could still access response headers and trigger the controller's execution, including any side effects. This issue also affects firewalls configured with methods: [GET]. A HEAD request would not match that firewall and could instead be handled by another matching firewall or no firewall at all. Applications using these vulnerable request matchers directly, including through a custom firewall request_matcher, could also be affected. The issue affects symfony/http-foundation through v5.4.55, v6.x through 6.4.49, v7.x through v7.4.22, and v8.x through v8.1.10.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-6617-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
symfony (PTS)bookworm, bookworm (security)5.4.53+dfsg-0+deb12u1vulnerable
trixie6.4.41+dfsg-0+deb13u1vulnerable
trixie (security)6.4.50+dfsg-0+deb13u1fixed
forky, sid7.4.23+dfsg-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
symfonysourcetrixie6.4.50+dfsg-0+deb13u1DSA-6617-1
symfonysource(unstable)7.4.23+dfsg-1

Notes

https://github.com/symfony/symfony/security/advisories/GHSA-jrf8-gvm4-7cgh

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