CVE-2026-45755: Symfony's Mailtrap Mailer Webhook Parser Never Verifies the X-Mt-Signature HMAC — Unauthenticated Webhook Event Injection
The Mailtrap mailer bridge ships a webhook request parser used to authenticate and decode the event callbacks Mailtrap POSTs to an application’s webhook endpoint. Its doParse(Request $request, #[\SensitiveParameter] string $secret) method receives the configured webhook secret but never reads it; it decodes and returns the payload unconditionally, ignoring the X-Mt-Signature HMAC header Mailtrap sends with each request.
As a result, an application that wires up the Mailtrap webhook endpoint accepts any POST to that URL, even when a signing secret is configured (the recommended setup). An attacker who knows the endpoint exists can submit forged event payloads, fake delivery / bounce / open / click / spam events, leading to suppression-list corruption, delivery-metrics fraud, etc.
References
- github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/symfony/mailtrap-mailer/CVE-2026-45755.yaml
- github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/symfony/symfony/CVE-2026-45755.yaml
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-59f3-vp2f-mp9w
- github.com/symfony/symfony/commit/4e0467e4e182cf2e704a3d9e1bc1a6be65d52ab8
- github.com/symfony/symfony/security/advisories/GHSA-59f3-vp2f-mp9w
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-45755
- symfony.com/cve-2026-45755
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