Description
An issue was discovered in Symfony before 2.7.38, 2.8.31, 3.2.14, 3.3.13, 3.4-BETA5, and 4.0-BETA5. The Intl component includes various bundle readers that are used to read resource bundles from the local filesystem. The read() methods of these classes use a path and a locale to determine the language bundle to retrieve. The locale argument value is commonly retrieved from untrusted user input (like a URL parameter). An attacker can use this argument to navigate to arbitrary directories via the dot-dot-slash attack, aka Directory Traversal.
Fixed in Linux distributions
Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.
Debian
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian 14 | symfony | 3.4.0+dfsg-1 | — |
| Debian 13 | symfony | 3.4.0+dfsg-1 | — |
| Debian 12 | symfony | 3.4.0+dfsg-1 | — |
| Debian 9 | symfony | 2.8.7+dfsg-1.3+deb9u1 | DSA-4262-1 |
| Debian 8 | symfony | 2.3.21+dfsg-4+deb8u4 | DLA-1707-1 |
Ubuntu
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu 16.04 LTS | symfony | No fix yet | — |
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Packagist | symfony/intl | >= 2.7.0, < 2.7.38 | 2.7.38 | GHSA-c49r-8gj6-768r |
| Packagist | symfony/intl | >= 2.8.0, < 2.8.31 | 2.8.31 | GHSA-c49r-8gj6-768r |
| Packagist | symfony/intl | >= 3.0.0, < 3.2.14 | 3.2.14 | GHSA-c49r-8gj6-768r |
| Packagist | symfony/intl | >= 3.3.0, < 3.3.13 | 3.3.13 | GHSA-c49r-8gj6-768r |
| Packagist | symfony/symfony | >= 2.7.0, < 2.7.38 | 2.7.38 | GHSA-c49r-8gj6-768r |
| Packagist | symfony/symfony | >= 2.8.0, < 2.8.31 | 2.8.31 | GHSA-c49r-8gj6-768r |
| Packagist | symfony/symfony | >= 3.0.0, < 3.2.14 | 3.2.14 | GHSA-c49r-8gj6-768r |
| Packagist | symfony/symfony | >= 3.3.0, < 3.3.13 | 3.3.13 | GHSA-c49r-8gj6-768r |
Advisories 2
- DSA-4262-1 symfony - security update Debian Security (DSA / DLA) · Mar 9, 2026
- DLA-1707-1 symfony - security update Debian Security (DSA / DLA) · Mar 9, 2026