GHSA-rjpm-qmq7-q85w: symfony/routing

Symfony XXE security vulnerability

CVSS 7.5 High

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 30 May 2024, 00:49 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

Package	Ecosystem	Affected	Fixed in
symfony/routing	Packagist	>=2.0.0, <2.0.17	2.0.17

Identifiers

GHSA-rjpm-qmq7-q85w · PKSA-g1jq-pppn-wyhk

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-611

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

symfony/routing versions 2.0.0 up to 2.0.17 are vulnerable to XML entity expansion (quadratic blowup) through libxml2, which can exhaust memory. An attacker who can get the application to parse a crafted XML document can cause a denial of service. Upgrade to symfony/routing 2.0.17.

Written 4 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our analysis of this Advisory yet. Once a person has reviewed it, this page will say what’s vulnerable, what has to be true for your app to be affected, and how to check.

Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
7.5	High	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	GitHub Advisory Database

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS No score.

Timeline

31 Oct 2026, 14:28 UTC First seen by agentprime
31 Oct 2026, 14:28 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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