# CVE-2026-33942: Saloon has insecure deserialization in AccessTokenAuthenticator (object injection / RCE)

- Also known as: GHSA-RF88-776R-RCQ9
- Severity: CVSS 8.1 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 4.0.0
- Published: 2026-03-26 · Updated: 2026-03-28

## Affected

- saloonphp saloon: fixed in 4.0.0
- saloonphp/saloon (Packagist): fixed in 4.0.0

## Description

Saloon is a PHP library that gives users tools to build API integrations and SDKs. Versions prior to 4.0.0 used PHP's unserialize() in AccessTokenAuthenticator::unserialize() to restore OAuth token state from cache or storage, with allowed_classes => true. An attacker who can control the serialized string (e.g. by overwriting a cached token file or via another injection) can supply a serialized "gadget" object. When unserialize() runs, PHP instantiates that object and runs its magic methods (__wakeup, __destruct, etc.), leading to object injection. In environments with common dependencies (e.g. Monolog), this can be chained to remote code execution (RCE). The fix in version 4.0.0 removes PHP serialization from the AccessTokenAuthenticator class requiring users to store and resolve the authenticator manually.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on saloonphp saloon, saloonphp/saloon, upgrade to a fixed version (4.0.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/saloonphp/saloon/security/advisories/GHSA-rf88-776r-rcq9
- https://docs.saloon.dev/upgrade/upgrading-from-v3-to-v4

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