UBUNTU-CVE-2026-121373: Medium severity ubuntu/symfony vulnerability

Published Nov 4, 2026
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Updated

The Symfony HtmlSanitizer component MetaRefreshAttributeSanitizer, introduced to fix CVE-2026-48761, sanitizes the refresh URL of content attributes of meta tags using a regular expression that is too narrow, allowing sanitization to be bypassed, and resulting in potential URL redirection to untrusted sites 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 shared declarative refresh steps in the WHATWG HTML Standard require a broader approach: the separator after the time may be ASCII whitespace alone, with no ; or ,, and the url= keyword is optional. Directives the browser honours, but the regular expression misses are returned unchanged, so the attacker URL skips UrlSanitizer entirely and both allowLinkSchemes and allowLinkHosts are defeated for the refresh navigation. This is reachable under any configuration that allows meta with http-equiv and content, including the documented allowStaticElements() preset.

Affected Software

7 affected components
ubuntu/symfony*
ubuntu/symfony*
ubuntu/symfony*
ubuntu/symfony*
ubuntu/symfony*
ubuntu/symfony*
ubuntu/symfony*

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

    Upgrade Symfony HtmlSanitizer component to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 6.4.50
  2. Upgrade

    Upgrade Symfony HtmlSanitizer component to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 7.4.23
  3. Upgrade

    Upgrade Symfony HtmlSanitizer component to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 8.1.11

Event History

Nov 4, 2026
CVE Published
via OSV·12:00 AM
Data Sourced
via OSV·12:00 AM
DescriptionSeverityAffected Software

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