yiisoft Yii2 up to 2.0.45 SortableIterator.php getIterator deserialization

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in yiisoft Yii2 up to 2.0.45 and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects the function getIterator of the file symfony\finder\Iterator\SortableIterator.php. Such manipulation leads to deserialization. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2025-2689. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. Furthermore, an exploit is available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in yiisoft Yii2 up to 2.0.45. Affected by this issue is the function getIterator of the file symfony\finder\Iterator\SortableIterator.php. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a deserialization vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-502. The product deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently verifying that the resulting data will be valid. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-2689. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known.

The exploit is available at github.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. By approaching the search of inurl:symfony\finder\Iterator\SortableIterator.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• yiisoft

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• Yii2

Version

• 2.0.0
• 2.0.1
• 2.0.2
• 2.0.3
• 2.0.4
• 2.0.5
• 2.0.6
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• 2.0.38
• 2.0.39
• 2.0.40
• 2.0.41
• 2.0.42
• 2.0.43
• 2.0.44
• 2.0.45

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Accepted

• Submit #521709: Yii Software LLC Yii 2.0 <=2.0.45 RCE (by gaorenyusi)

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