GHSA-6qh9-h6wf-jgqc
Symfony Vulnerable to SQL Injection in PdoAdapter::doClear() via Unsanitized $prefix
Details
### Description
`Symfony\Component\Cache\Adapter\PdoAdapter` is the PDO-backed cache adapter. Its `clear($prefix)` method (inherited from `AbstractAdapterTrait`) is documented to delete cache items whose key starts with `$prefix`.
In the non-versioning code path, the caller-supplied `$prefix` is concatenated into `$namespace = $this->namespace.$prefix` and passed to `PdoAdapter::doClear()`, which builds:
```sql DELETE FROM <table> WHERE <id_col> LIKE '<namespace>%' ```
The value is interpolated directly into the SQL text and executed with `PDO::exec()`: `$namespace` is not bound. A caller able to influence `$prefix` can break out of the literal and inject SQL, expanding deletion scope from the intended prefix to arbitrary rows, or otherwise reshape query semantics.
Most applications don't expose `clear($prefix)` to untrusted input directly, but the contract of the method is to safely accept any prefix string, so the lack of escaping is a defect of the adapter itself.
### Resolution
`AbstractAdapterTrait::clear()` now rejects any `$prefix` containing characters outside `[-+.A-Za-z0-9]`: when an invalid prefix is supplied, the method logs a warning and returns `false` instead of reaching the SQL layer. This blocks quotes, `%`, null bytes and other characters that would let an attacker break out of the `LIKE` literal.
The patch for this issue is available [here](https://github.com/symfony/symfony/commit/ec50b799d79ebe24561f29351c1efcb6da95c9b1) for branch 5.4.
### Credits Symfony would like to thank secsys_codex for reporting the issue and Nicolas Grekas for fixing it.
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Affected packages
0 Fixed in: 5.4.52 composer require symfony/cache:^5.4.52 6.0.0 Fixed in: 6.4.40 composer require symfony/cache:^6.4.40 7.0.0 Fixed in: 7.4.12 composer require symfony/cache:^7.4.12 8.0.0 Fixed in: 8.0.12 composer require symfony/cache:^8.0.12 0 Fixed in: 5.4.52 composer require symfony/symfony:^5.4.52 6.0.0 Fixed in: 6.4.40 composer require symfony/symfony:^6.4.40 7.0.0 Fixed in: 7.4.12 composer require symfony/symfony:^7.4.12 8.0.0 Fixed in: 8.0.12 composer require symfony/symfony:^8.0.12 References
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/security/advisories/GHSA-6qh9-h6wf-jgqc [WEB]
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/commit/ec50b799d79ebe24561f29351c1efcb6da95c9b [WEB]
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/symfony/cache/CVE-2026-45073.yaml [WEB]
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/symfony/symfony/CVE-2026-45073.yaml [WEB]
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony [PACKAGE]
- https://symfony.com/cve-2026-45073 [WEB]