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GHSA-c2p3-7m5p-cv8x

Symfony hardened the parser when handling untrusted input

Details

### Description

`Symfony\Component\Yaml\Parser` is the entry point for parsing YAML strings into PHP values via `Yaml::parse()`. When the parser is exposed to attacker-controlled input, deeply nested mappings or sequences cause both the block-level (`Parser::parseBlock()`) and inline (`Inline::parseSequence()` / `Inline::parseMapping()`) parsers to recurse without a depth limit. A crafted document exhausts the PHP stack and crashes the worker.

### Resolution

The `Parser` now tracks recursion depth in a shared `ParserState` object across both block-level and inline parsing, with a default limit of **128**. The limit is configurable via a new `$maxNestingLevel` argument on `Parser::__construct()`, `Yaml::parse()` and `Yaml::parseFile()`.

The patch for this issue is available [here](https://github.com/symfony/symfony/commit/914f427ed9630ddb3904dafba763e53d9f133fe3) for branch 5.4.

### Credits

Symfony would like to thank Pietro Tirenna (Shielder) for reporting the issue and Nicolas Grekas for fixing it.

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Affected packages

Packagist / symfony/yaml
Introduced in: 0 Fixed in: 5.4.52
Fix composer require symfony/yaml:^5.4.52
Packagist / symfony/symfony
Introduced in: 0 Fixed in: 5.4.52
Fix composer require symfony/symfony:^5.4.52
Packagist / symfony/symfony
Introduced in: 6.0.0 Fixed in: 6.4.40
Fix composer require symfony/symfony:^6.4.40
Packagist / symfony/symfony
Introduced in: 7.0.0 Fixed in: 7.4.12
Fix composer require symfony/symfony:^7.4.12
Packagist / symfony/symfony
Introduced in: 8.0.0 Fixed in: 8.0.12
Fix composer require symfony/symfony:^8.0.12
Packagist / symfony/yaml
Introduced in: 6.0.0 Fixed in: 6.4.40
Fix composer require symfony/yaml:^6.4.40
Packagist / symfony/yaml
Introduced in: 7.0.0 Fixed in: 7.4.12
Fix composer require symfony/yaml:^7.4.12
Packagist / symfony/yaml
Introduced in: 8.0.0 Fixed in: 8.0.12
Fix composer require symfony/yaml:^8.0.12

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