Vulnerability Report

CVE-2026-45071

Title: External entity resolution allowing local file expansion in Symfony Crawler

XXE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2026-45071.

CWE Category CWE-611
Published Date Jul 14, 2026
Modified Date Jul 15, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 8.7 CVSS v4.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.46%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2026-45071: Symfony is a PHP framework for web and console applications and a set of reusable PHP components. Prior to 5.4.52, 6.4.40, 7.4.12, and 8.0.12, Crawler::addXmlContent() set DOMDocument::$validateOnParse = true before loadXML(), re-enabling external entity resolution and allowing attacker-supplied XML to expand file:// entities such as local files. This issue is fixed in versions 5.4.52, 6.4.40, 7.4.12, and 8.0.12.

Impacted Vendors

S
sensiolabs 1
A
auth0 1

Reference Links

https://github.com/symfony/symfony/commit/eea5fd7488cbdc241da4ce242344b7d9a3ecdf3d https://github.com/symfony/symfony/releases/tag/v5.4.52 https://github.com/symfony/symfony/releases/tag/v6.4.40 https://github.com/symfony/symfony/releases/tag/v7.4.12 https://github.com/symfony/symfony/releases/tag/v8.0.12 https://github.com/symfony/symfony/security/advisories/GHSA-x6g4-fwcc-jj8w
CVSS v4.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
8.7
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
N/A
RAW VECTOR CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
7.5
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2026-45071 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

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MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

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Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.