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richard67
27 May 2026

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Summary of Changes

This pull request (PR) updates the composer dependency "symfony/yaml" from version v6.4.34 to version v6.4.41 to fix three security vulnerabilities of unknown severity reported by composer audit.

Release notes:

All changes: symfony/yaml@v6.4.34...v6.4.41

Hint for 6.2 Release Managers

As currently composer.json and composer.lock on the 6.2-dev branch are equal to the files on 6.1-dev, this PR here can be merged up into 6.2-dev without having to worry about the checksum in the lock file after it has been merged into 6.1-dev.

Testing Instructions

  1. Run composer install and then composer audit.
  2. Verify that there are no breaking changes done with this update by checking the release information listed above in the summary of changes.

Actual result BEFORE applying this Pull Request

  1. Composer audit
Found 1 ignored security vulnerability advisory affecting 1 package:
+-------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Package           | web-auth/webauthn-lib                                                            |
| Severity          | medium                                                                           |
| Advisory ID       | PKSA-3mms-4n3p-ym65                                                              |
| CVE               | CVE-2024-39912                                                                   |
| Title             | The FIDO2/Webauthn Support for PHP library allows enumeration of valid usernames  |
| URL               | https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-875x-g8p7-5w27                                |
| Affected versions | >=4.5.0,<4.9.0                                                                   |
| Reported at       | 2024-07-15T16:37:49+00:00                                                        |
| Ignore reason     | Temporary until Webauthn plugin has been updated.                                |
+-------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Found 3 security vulnerability advisories affecting 1 package:
+-------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Package           | symfony/yaml                                                                     |
| Severity          |                                                                                  |
| Advisory ID       | PKSA-v5yj-8nmz-sk2q                                                              |
| CVE               | CVE-2026-45304                                                                   |
| Title             | CVE-2026-45304: YAML Parser Exponential Memory Allocation via Recursive          |
|                   | Collection-Alias Expansion ("Billion Laughs")                                    |
| URL               | https://symfony.com/cve-2026-45304                                               |
| Affected versions | >=2.0.0,<3.0.0|>=3.0.0,<4.0.0|>=4.0.0,<5.0.0|>=5.0.0,<5.1.0|>=5.1.0,<5.2.0|>=5.2 |
|                   | .0,<5.3.0|>=5.3.0,<5.4.0|>=5.4.0,<5.4.52|>=6.0.0,<6.1.0|>=6.1.0,<6.2.0|>=6.2.0,< |
|                   | 6.3.0|>=6.3.0,<6.4.0|>=6.4.0,<6.4.40|>=7.0.0,<7.1.0|>=7.1.0,<7.2.0|>=7.2.0,<7.3. |
|                   | 0|>=7.3.0,<7.4.0|>=7.4.0,<7.4.12|>=8.0.0,<8.0.12                                 |
| Reported at       | 2026-05-20T08:00:00+00:00                                                        |
+-------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+-------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Package           | symfony/yaml                                                                     |
| Severity          |                                                                                  |
| Advisory ID       | PKSA-ft77-7h5f-p3r6                                                              |
| CVE               | CVE-2026-45305                                                                   |
| Title             | CVE-2026-45305: YAML Parser ReDoS via Catastrophic Backtracking in               |
|                   | Parser::cleanup() Regex                                                          |
| URL               | https://symfony.com/cve-2026-45305                                               |
| Affected versions | >=2.0.0,<3.0.0|>=3.0.0,<4.0.0|>=4.0.0,<5.0.0|>=5.0.0,<5.1.0|>=5.1.0,<5.2.0|>=5.2 |
|                   | .0,<5.3.0|>=5.3.0,<5.4.0|>=5.4.0,<5.4.52|>=6.0.0,<6.1.0|>=6.1.0,<6.2.0|>=6.2.0,< |
|                   | 6.3.0|>=6.3.0,<6.4.0|>=6.4.0,<6.4.40|>=7.0.0,<7.1.0|>=7.1.0,<7.2.0|>=7.2.0,<7.3. |
|                   | 0|>=7.3.0,<7.4.0|>=7.4.0,<7.4.12|>=8.0.0,<8.0.12                                 |
| Reported at       | 2026-05-20T08:00:00+00:00                                                        |
+-------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+-------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Package           | symfony/yaml                                                                     |
| Severity          |                                                                                  |
| Advisory ID       | PKSA-b14r-zh1d-vdrc                                                              |
| CVE               | CVE-2026-45133                                                                   |
| Title             | CVE-2026-45133: YAML Parser Stack Exhaustion via Unbounded Recursion in Nested   |
|                   | Blocks, Sequences, and Mappings                                                  |
| URL               | https://symfony.com/cve-2026-45133                                               |
| Affected versions | >=2.0.0,<3.0.0|>=3.0.0,<4.0.0|>=4.0.0,<5.0.0|>=5.0.0,<5.1.0|>=5.1.0,<5.2.0|>=5.2 |
|                   | .0,<5.3.0|>=5.3.0,<5.4.0|>=5.4.0,<5.4.52|>=6.0.0,<6.1.0|>=6.1.0,<6.2.0|>=6.2.0,< |
|                   | 6.3.0|>=6.3.0,<6.4.0|>=6.4.0,<6.4.40|>=7.0.0,<7.1.0|>=7.1.0,<7.2.0|>=7.2.0,<7.3. |
|                   | 0|>=7.3.0,<7.4.0|>=7.4.0,<7.4.12|>=8.0.0,<8.0.12                                 |
| Reported at       | 2026-05-20T08:00:00+00:00                                                        |
+-------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Found 1 abandoned package:
+---------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Abandoned Package         | Suggested Replacement                                                            |
+---------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| web-auth/metadata-service | web-auth/webauthn-lib                                                            |
+---------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  1. Not applicable.

Expected result AFTER applying this Pull Request

  1. Composer audit
Found 1 ignored security vulnerability advisory affecting 1 package:
+-------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Package           | web-auth/webauthn-lib                                                            |
| Severity          | medium                                                                           |
| Advisory ID       | PKSA-3mms-4n3p-ym65                                                              |
| CVE               | CVE-2024-39912                                                                   |
| Title             | The FIDO2/Webauthn Support for PHP library allows enumeration of valid usernames  |
| URL               | https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-875x-g8p7-5w27                                |
| Affected versions | >=4.5.0,<4.9.0                                                                   |
| Reported at       | 2024-07-15T16:37:49+00:00                                                        |
| Ignore reason     | Temporary until Webauthn plugin has been updated.                                |
+-------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Found 1 abandoned package:
+---------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Abandoned Package         | Suggested Replacement                                                            |
+---------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| web-auth/metadata-service | web-auth/webauthn-lib                                                            |
+---------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  1. No breaking changes.

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avatar richard67 richard67 - open - 27 May 2026
avatar richard67 richard67 - change - 27 May 2026
Status New Pending
avatar joomla-cms-bot joomla-cms-bot - change - 27 May 2026
Category External Library Composer Change
avatar HLeithner
HLeithner - comment - 27 May 2026

you don't need to create such PRs no release will be done in the next 5 weeks. thanks

avatar richard67 richard67 - change - 27 May 2026
The description was changed
avatar richard67 richard67 - edited - 27 May 2026
avatar richard67 richard67 - change - 27 May 2026
The description was changed
avatar richard67 richard67 - edited - 27 May 2026
avatar richard67
richard67 - comment - 29 May 2026

you don't need to create such PRs no release will be done in the next 5 weeks. thanks

@HLeithner Shall I close it?

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