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GHSA-vqc8-7275-q272

Symfony has Email Header Injection via Non-Token Characters in Mime Parameter Names

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### Description

`Symfony\Component\Mime\Header\ParameterizedHeader` (and the related parameter handling reachable from `Symfony\Component\Mime\Header\Headers`) is responsible for serializing structured headers such as `Content-Type` and `Content-Disposition`, which carry `key=value` parameters (e.g. `Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="x"`).

RFC 2045 / RFC 5322 require parameter *names* to be `tokens`: a restricted ASCII subset that excludes whitespace, CR/LF, and the `tspecials` set. Symfony's parameter handling validates and properly encodes parameter *values*, but does not validate parameter *names*: the supplied name is emitted verbatim into the serialized header.

A caller that derives a parameter name from untrusted input, e.g. an application that lets a user influence a `Content-Disposition` parameter name, can include `\r\n` or other non-token bytes inside the name, terminating the current header and injecting additional headers in the rendered message. This is the classic CRLF / header-injection primitive applied to the parameter-name slot.

### Resolution

`ParameterizedHeader` now rejects parameter names that contain bytes outside the RFC `token` character class.

The patch for this issue is available [here](https://github.com/symfony/symfony/commit/e62ea217f8b4ca8ae922ad0f949e0c4dc1f9b613) for branch 5.4.

### Credits

Symfony would like to thank Fabian Fleischer for reporting the issue and Alexandre Daubois for fixing it.

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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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