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CVE-2026-45068: Symfony has an Argument Injection in SendmailTransport via Dash-Prefixed Recipient Address

May 27, 2026

Symfony Mailer selects a transport via the MAILER_DSN environment variable / configuration (e.g. smtp://..., sendmail://..., native://default). SendmailTransport invokes the local sendmail binary and supports two modes: -bs (speak SMTP over stdin: the default) and -t (read the message on stdin, pass recipients as command-line arguments).

In -t mode, recipient addresses are appended to the sendmail command line without a -- end-of-options separator. A recipient address beginning with - (which Symfony\Component\Mime\Address accepts as valid) is therefore interpreted by sendmail as a command-line option rather than an address.

References

  • github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/symfony/mailer/CVE-2026-45068.yaml
  • github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/symfony/symfony/CVE-2026-45068.yaml
  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-xx3c-qf5g-hc39
  • github.com/symfony/symfony/commit/c45144862dc289d03952f41f6078174089a3afc6
  • github.com/symfony/symfony/security/advisories/GHSA-xx3c-qf5g-hc39
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-45068
  • symfony.com/cve-2026-45068

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Affected versions

All versions before 5.4.52, all versions starting from 6.0.0 before 6.4.40, all versions starting from 7.0.0 before 7.4.12, all versions starting from 8.0.0 before 8.0.12

Fixed versions

  • 5.4.52
  • 6.4.40
  • 7.4.12
  • 8.0.12

Solution

Upgrade to versions 5.4.52, 6.4.40, 7.4.12, 8.0.12 or above.

Impact 8.1 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

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Weakness

  • CWE-88: Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection')

Source file

packagist/symfony/mailer/CVE-2026-45068.yml

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