GHSA-9c3x-r3wp-mgxm is a low-severity (CVSS 3.1) Information Exposure vulnerability in symfony/http-client. A fix is available for symfony/http-client — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Symfony allows internal address and port enumeration by NoPrivateNetworkHttpClient
Exploitation Status
No confirmed exploitation observed yet
- CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for GHSA-9c3x-r3wp-mgxm.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) is a daily probability model maintained by FIRST.org. It estimates the likelihood a CVE will be exploited in production environments within the next 30 days, derived from real-world threat intelligence signals.
How urgent is this, really
GHSA-9c3x-r3wp-mgxm plotted by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). The shaded corner — EPSS 50%+ and CVSS 7.0+ — is where this CVE doesn't sit, though severity or exploitability alone can still warrant action.
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 377,636 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Real counts from FIRST.org, not a sample — log-scaled since the landscape is heavily right-skewed.
Real-World Exposure
symfony/http-client🐘symfony/http-client🐘symfony/http-client🐘symfony/symfony🐘symfony/symfony🐘symfony/symfonyReal-time download stats are indexed for npm and PyPI packages. This vulnerability affects Packagist packages — download data is not available via public APIs for these ecosystems.
Description
Description
When using the NoPrivateNetworkHttpClient, some internal information is still leaking during host resolution, which leads to possible IP/port enumeration.
Resolution
The NoPrivateNetworkHttpClient now filters blocked IPs earlier to prevent such leaks.
The fisrt patch for this issue is available here for branch 5.4.
The second one is available here for branch 5.4 also.
Credits
We would like to thank Linus Karlsson and Chris Smith for reporting the issue and Nicolas Grekas for providing the fix.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🐘Packagist | symfony/http-client | ≥ 4.3.0&&< 5.4.47 | 5.4.47composer require symfony/http-client:^5.4.47 |
| 🐘Packagist | symfony/http-client | ≥ 6.0.0&&< 6.4.15 | 6.4.15composer require symfony/http-client:^6.4.15 |
| 🐘Packagist | symfony/http-client | ≥ 7.0.0&&< 7.1.8 | 7.1.8composer require symfony/http-client:^7.1.8 |
| 🐘Packagist | symfony/symfony | ≥ 4.3.0&&< 5.4.47 | 5.4.47composer require symfony/symfony:^5.4.47 |
| 🐘Packagist | symfony/symfony | ≥ 6.0.0&&< 6.4.15 | 6.4.15composer require symfony/symfony:^6.4.15 |
| 🐘Packagist | symfony/symfony | ≥ 7.0.0&&< 7.1.8 | 7.1.8composer require symfony/symfony:^7.1.8 |
Detection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for symfony/http-client, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
Update symfony/http-client to 5.4.47 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms GHSA-9c3x-r3wp-mgxm is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.
How O3 protects you
O3 Security's impact-aware SCA analyses which vulnerable code paths your application actually calls, so a match like GHSA-9c3x-r3wp-mgxm can be triaged on real exposure rather than presence alone.
Tailored to GHSA-9c3x-r3wp-mgxm. Runtime protection reduces exposure until a permanent patch is applied and verified — it complements patching, it doesn't replace it.
Fixing This On Your OS
If you run this on a Linux distribution, patch through your package manager against the distro's own security advisory below — it tracks the exact backported fix for your release, which can ship on a different timeline (and sometimes a different severity) than the upstream project.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is GHSA-9c3x-r3wp-mgxm in your dependencies?
O3 Security finds GHSA-9c3x-r3wp-mgxm across Packagist dependencies, including transitive ones, and its impact-aware SCA ranks findings by whether your code actually calls the vulnerable path.