GHSA-pr2w-4gpj-cpq4

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Source
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pr2w-4gpj-cpq4
Import Source
https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/06/GHSA-pr2w-4gpj-cpq4/GHSA-pr2w-4gpj-cpq4.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-pr2w-4gpj-cpq4
Aliases
Published
2026-06-05T21:47:11Z
Modified
2026-08-24T00:36:58Z
Summary
Twig: Sandbox: multiple `__toString()` policy bypasses via unguarded string coercion points
Details

Description

SandboxNodeVisitor enforces SecurityPolicy::checkMethodAllowed() for implicit __toString() calls by wrapping selected AST nodes in CheckToStringNode. The set of wrapped nodes is incomplete, and several Twig language constructs still trigger PHP string coercion on a Stringable operand without first consulting the policy. A sandboxed template author can therefore invoke __toString() on any object reachable in the render context, even when __toString on its class is not allowlisted.

Confirmed bypass vectors:

  • Conditional expressions (a ? b : c, a ?: b, a ?? b) used as the input of a string-coercing filter or as a filter/function argument.
  • The matches operator and the loose comparison operators (==, !=, <, >, <=, >=, <=>), which coerce a Stringable operand to string and can be used as an oracle to recover the value byte by byte (no tag, filter or function needs to be allowlisted).
  • Twig tests in general (which were never policy-gated), in particular is empty which casts a Stringable value via (string) $value in CoreExtension::testEmpty().
  • Null-coalesce expressions nested in concatenation, and the direct output of allowed functions or filters that return a Stringable object.
  • Arguments passed to allowed object methods, template-name expressions of template-loading tags (include, extends, use, ...), dynamic attribute/property names, and spread arguments from Traversable objects.
  • The do tag and the .. range operator.

Resolution

The sandbox now wraps every child node that the parent will string-coerce at runtime, instead of relying on a hardcoded list of node types in SandboxNodeVisitor. A new Twig\Node\CoercesChildrenToStringInterface lets nodes declare which of their children must be guarded; core nodes (concatenation, comparison and range binaries, filter/function/test expressions, do, include, extends, use, ...) implement it. Spread arguments are materialised and policy-checked via the new SandboxExtension::ensureSpreadAllowed(), and dynamic attribute names are checked at runtime inside CoreExtension::getAttribute().

Credits

Twig would like to thank Anthropic Glasswing and El Kharoubi Iosif for reporting the issues, and Fabien Potencier for providing the fixes.

Database specific
{
    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-20"
    ],
    "github_reviewed":  true,
    "github_reviewed_at":  "2026-06-05T21:47:11Z",
    "nvd_published_at":  null,
    "severity":  "HIGH"
}
References

Affected packages

Packagist / twig/twig

Package

Name
twig/twig
Purl
pkg:composer/twig/twig

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.26.0

Affected versions

1.*
1.3.0
1.4.0
1.5.0
1.5.1
1.6.0
1.6.1
1.6.2
1.6.3
1.6.4
1.6.5
v1.*
v1.7.0
v1.8.0
v1.8.1
v1.8.2
v1.8.3
v1.9.0
v1.9.1
v1.9.2
v1.10.0
v1.10.1
v1.10.2
v1.10.3
v1.11.0
v1.11.1
v1.12.0-RC1
v1.12.0
v1.12.1
v1.12.2
v1.12.3
v1.13.0
v1.13.1
v1.13.2
v1.14.0
v1.14.1
v1.14.2
v1.15.0
v1.15.1
v1.16.0
v1.16.1
v1.16.2
v1.16.3
v1.17.0
v1.18.0
v1.18.1
v1.18.2
v1.19.0
v1.20.0
v1.21.0
v1.21.1
v1.21.2
v1.22.0
v1.22.1
v1.22.2
v1.22.3
v1.23.0
v1.23.1
v1.23.2
v1.23.3
v1.24.0
v1.24.1
v1.24.2
v1.25.0
v1.26.0
v1.26.1
v1.27.0
v1.28.0
v1.28.1
v1.28.2
v1.29.0
v1.30.0
v1.31.0
v1.32.0
v1.33.0
v1.33.1
v1.33.2
v1.34.0
v1.34.1
v1.34.2
v1.34.3
v1.34.4
v1.35.0
v1.35.1
v1.35.2
v1.35.3
v1.35.4
v1.36.0
v1.37.0
v1.37.1
v1.38.0
v1.38.1
v1.38.2
v1.38.3
v1.38.4
v1.39.0
v1.39.1
v1.40.0
v1.40.1
v1.41.0
v1.42.0
v1.42.1
v1.42.2
v1.42.3
v1.42.4
v1.42.5
v1.43.0
v1.43.1
v1.44.0
v1.44.1
v1.44.2
v1.44.3
v1.44.4
v1.44.5
v1.44.6
v1.44.7
v1.44.8
v2.*
v2.0.0
v2.1.0
v2.2.0
v2.3.0
v2.3.1
v2.3.2
v2.4.0
v2.4.1
v2.4.2
v2.4.3
v2.4.4
v2.4.5
v2.4.6
v2.4.7
v2.4.8
v2.5.0
v2.6.0
v2.6.1
v2.6.2
v2.7.0
v2.7.1
v2.7.2
v2.7.3
v2.7.4
v2.8.0
v2.8.1
v2.9.0
v2.10.0
v2.11.0
v2.11.1
v2.11.2
v2.11.3
v2.12.0
v2.12.1
v2.12.2
v2.12.3
v2.12.4
v2.12.5
v2.13.0
v2.13.1
v2.14.0
v2.14.1
v2.14.2
v2.14.3
v2.14.4
v2.14.5
v2.14.6
v2.14.7
v2.14.8
v2.14.9
v2.14.10
v2.14.11
v2.14.12
v2.14.13
v2.15.0
v2.15.1
v2.15.2
v2.15.3
v2.15.4
v2.15.5
v2.15.6
v2.16.0
v2.16.1
v3.*
v3.0.0-BETA1
v3.0.0
v3.0.1
v3.0.2
v3.0.3
v3.0.4
v3.0.5
v3.1.0
v3.1.1
v3.2.1
v3.3.0
v3.3.1
v3.3.2
v3.3.3
v3.3.4
v3.3.5
v3.3.6
v3.3.7
v3.3.8
v3.3.9
v3.3.10
v3.4.0
v3.4.1
v3.4.2
v3.4.3
v3.5.0
v3.5.1
v3.6.0
v3.6.1
v3.7.0
v3.7.1
v3.8.0
v3.9.0
v3.9.1
v3.9.2
v3.9.3
v3.10.0
v3.10.1
v3.10.2
v3.10.3
v3.11.0
v3.11.1
v3.11.2
v3.11.3
v3.12.0
v3.13.0
v3.14.0
v3.14.1
v3.14.2
v3.15.0
v3.16.0
v3.17.0
v3.17.1
v3.18.0
v3.19.0
v3.20.0
v3.21.0
v3.21.1
v3.22.0
v3.22.1
v3.22.2
v3.23.0
v3.24.0
v3.25.0

Database specific

last_known_affected_version_range
"<= 3.25.0"
source
"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/06/GHSA-pr2w-4gpj-cpq4/GHSA-pr2w-4gpj-cpq4.json"