CVE-2026-109449

CVSS 8.7 (high) · published 2026-10-15

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.

Weakness: CWE-674

Source: NVD CVE-2026-109449

References

• https://github.com/symfony/symfony/pull/65690
• https://github.com/symfony/symfony/pull/66720
• https://github.com/symfony/symfony/pull/66723
• https://github.com/symfony/symfony/security/advisories/GHSA-7rpj-w9pf-39rr
• https://symfony.com/blog/cve-2026-109449-unbounded-nesting-in-the-expression-parser-lets-untrusted-expressions-crash-the-process

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