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Low · 2.3 CVE-2026-121949 EUVD-2026-117624

Symfony: HtmlSanitizer Does Not URL-Sanitize srcset and imagesrcset: Media Scheme and Host Allow-List Bypass

Published Nov 5, 2026 · Updated Nov 5, 2026 · Assigned by Checkmarx

Description

The Symfony HtmlSanitizer component does not apply the media URL policy to the srcset and imagesrcset attributes, allowing values that point to hosts or schemes not permitted by allowMediaSchemes() or allowMediaHosts() to bypass it, so that browsers load images from disallowed hosts in Symfony versions 6.1.x prior to 6.4.50, 7.x prior to 7.4.23, and 8.x prior to 8.1.11.The srcset attribute on img and source elements and the imagesrcset attribute on link elements are allowed by the sanitizer, but their URL candidates are never validated, so their values are kept verbatim while the same URL in src is dropped. The fixes for CVE-2026-45753 and CVE-2026-48761 extended the same attribute list but did not cover these two attributes. For example, with allowMediaSchemes(['https']) and allowMediaHosts(['trusted.example']), <img srcset="https://evil.example/a.png 1x"> survives sanitization, and the browser fetches the selected candidate as it would fetch src. Candidates with a scheme forbidden by the configuration, such as http, are kept as well.
Any application that sanitizes untrusted HTML and relies on the media schemes and hosts allowlists to restrict where images can be loaded from is affected. A single crafted value is enough to make the browser of a user viewing the sanitized content send a request to an attacker-controlled host, which can be used to track viewers or log their IP addresses. No authentication is needed if the application accepts HTML from unauthenticated users.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
sensiolabs symfony — —

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.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 symfony 7.4.23+dfsg-1 —
Debian 13 symfony 6.4.50+dfsg-0+deb13u1 —
Debian 12 symfony No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 symfony No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS symfony No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS symfony No fix yet —
Show 4 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS symfony No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS symfony No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS symfony No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS symfony No fix yet —

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