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GHSA-qpmx-3rfj-7rhv

Symfony has Email Header / SMTP Command Injection via CRLF in Symfony\Component\Mime\Address

Details

### Description

`Symfony\Component\Mime\Address` is the value-object every Symfony Mailer address (to/cc/bcc/from/reply-to) flows through; its constructor is documented as validating the address and throwing on invalid input, so developers treat it as a security boundary.

The constructor accepts email addresses whose local-part (the part before `@`) is an RFC-5322 *quoted string* containing raw `\r\n` bytes, e.g. `"x\r\nBcc: attacker@evil"@example.com`. The stored address is later emitted verbatim into (1) the rendered message headers and (2) `SmtpTransport`'s `MAIL FROM:<...>` / `RCPT TO:<...>` protocol lines, turning the embedded CRLF into a new mail header and/or a new SMTP command.

### Resolution

The `Address` constructor now rejects addresses containing line breaks.

The patch for this issue is available [here](https://github.com/symfony/symfony/commit/dc2dbd29211eb4ddc451373fa1374fb926e94604) for branch 5.4.

### Credits

We would like to thank Claude Mythos Preview (via Project Glasswing) for reporting the issue and providing the fix.

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Affected packages

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

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