twigphp Twig up to 2.16.x/3.25.x protection mechanism

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in twigphp Twig up to 2.16.x/3.25.x. This affects an unknown part. The manipulation leads to protection mechanism. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2026-24425. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in twigphp Twig up to 2.16.x/3.25.x and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a protection mechanism vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-693. The product does not use or incorrectly uses a protection mechanism that provides sufficient defense against directed attacks against the product. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Twig versions 2.16.x and 3.9.0 through 3.25.x contain a sandbox bypass vulnerability when using a SourcePolicyInterface that allows attackers with template rendering capabilities to pass arbitrary PHP callables to sort, filter, map, and reduce filters. Attackers can exploit the runtime check that fails to use the current template source to bypass sandbox restrictions and execute arbitrary code when the sandbox is enabled through a source policy rather than globally.

The weakness was presented by Nicolò Ribaudo. It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-24425 since 01/22/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 316030 (Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-24425), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 3.26.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (316030) and EUVD (EUVD-2026-31113). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Vendor

• twigphp

Name

• Twig

Version

• 2.0
• 2.1
• 2.2
• 2.3
• 2.4
• 2.5
• 2.6
• 2.7
• 2.8
• 2.9
• 2.10
• 2.11
• 2.12
• 2.13
• 2.14
• 2.15
• 2.16
• 3.0
• 3.1
• 3.2
• 3.3
• 3.4
• 3.5
• 3.6
• 3.7
• 3.8
• 3.9
• 3.10
• 3.11
• 3.12
• 3.13
• 3.14
• 3.15
• 3.16
• 3.17
• 3.18
• 3.19
• 3.20
• 3.21
• 3.22
• 3.23
• 3.24
• 3.25

Website

• Product: https://github.com/twigphp/Twig/

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