Sensiolabs Symfony up to 6.4.49/7.4.22/8.1.10 UrlSanitizer allowLinkHosts/allowMediaHosts input validation

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A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in Sensiolabs Symfony up to 6.4.49/7.4.22/8.1.10. This issue affects the function allowLinkHosts/allowMediaHosts of the component UrlSanitizer. Such manipulation leads to input validation. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-118517. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Sensiolabs Symfony up to 6.4.49/7.4.22/8.1.10. Affected by this issue is the function allowLinkHosts/allowMediaHosts of the component UrlSanitizer. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a input validation vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-20. The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The Symfony HtmlSanitizer component UrlSanitizer parses URLs differently from browsers, allowing the allowLinkHosts() and allowMediaHosts() checks to be bypassed for URLs without a well-formed authority, resulting in untrusted hosts being referenced in sanitized output in Symfony versions 6.1.x prior to 6.4.50, 7.x prior to 7.4.23, and 8.x prior to 8.1.11. UrlSanitizer parses URLs with league/uri, which follows RFC 3986, while browsers follow the WHATWG URL standard. For URLs without a well-formed authority, such as http:evil.example, ///evil.example, or https://://evil.example/ the sanitizer finds no host, whereas browsers resolve them to evil.example. The guard added for CVE-2026-45066 missed the zero-slash form, and the host 0 was also skipped because PHP treats it as falsy. This is exploitable when a host allow-list is combined with allowRelativeLinks(true) or allowRelativeMedias(true). The default configuration is not affected.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-118517 since 10/28/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit.

Upgrading to version 6.4.50, 7.4.23 or 8.1.11 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Type

• Programming Tool Software

Vendor

• Sensiolabs

Name

• Symfony

Version

• 6.4.0
• 6.4.1
• 6.4.2
• 6.4.3
• 6.4.4
• 6.4.5
• 6.4.6
• 6.4.7
• 6.4.8
• 6.4.9
• 6.4.10
• 6.4.11
• 6.4.12
• 6.4.13
• 6.4.14
• 6.4.15
• 6.4.16
• 6.4.17
• 6.4.18
• 6.4.19
• 6.4.20
• 6.4.21
• 6.4.22
• 6.4.23
• 6.4.24
• 6.4.25
• 6.4.26
• 6.4.27
• 6.4.28
• 6.4.29
• 6.4.30
• 6.4.31
• 6.4.32
• 6.4.33
• 6.4.34
• 6.4.35
• 6.4.36
• 6.4.37
• 6.4.38
• 6.4.39
• 6.4.40
• 6.4.41
• 6.4.42
• 6.4.43
• 6.4.44
• 6.4.45
• 6.4.46
• 6.4.47
• 6.4.48
• 6.4.49
• 7.4.0
• 7.4.1
• 7.4.2
• 7.4.3
• 7.4.4
• 7.4.5
• 7.4.6
• 7.4.7
• 7.4.8
• 7.4.9
• 7.4.10
• 7.4.11
• 7.4.12
• 7.4.13
• 7.4.14
• 7.4.15
• 7.4.16
• 7.4.17
• 7.4.18
• 7.4.19
• 7.4.20
• 7.4.21
• 7.4.22
• 8.1.0
• 8.1.1
• 8.1.2
• 8.1.3
• 8.1.4
• 8.1.5
• 8.1.6
• 8.1.7
• 8.1.8
• 8.1.9
• 8.1.10

License

• open-source

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