GHSA-pjhx-3c3w-9v23: API Platform Core vulnerable to cross-user attribute leak in JSON:API and HAL item normalizers due to missing isCacheKeySafe gate
Impact
#[ApiProperty(security: ...)] is evaluated per request to decide whether a property is exposed. The componentsCache arrays in ApiPlatform\JsonApi\Serializer\ItemNormalizer and ApiPlatform\Hal\Serializer\ItemNormalizer are keyed on $context['cache_key'], which is set unconditionally before delegating to the parent normalizer. The component structure (attributes, relationships, links) computed for one request can therefore be reused for a subsequent request whose user has a different set of accessible properties. A user with lower privileges may end up seeing the structure of properties that the security predicate would otherwise have hidden for them.
This is the same vulnerability class as GHSA-428q-q3vv-3fq3 / CVE-2025-31485, which fixed only the GraphQL ItemNormalizer. The JSON:API and HAL paths were not addressed at the time.
Exploitation conditions
Exploitation requires all of the following to coincide:
- The application exposes a resource via the JSON:API and/or HAL formats.
- At least one property of that resource uses #[ApiProperty(security: ...)] with a predicate whose result depends on the current user (or on per-request state).
- A request from a user for whom the predicate evaluates to true populates componentsCache before a request from a user for whom the predicate evaluates to false, within the lifetime of the same PHP process.
- The deployment uses a long-running PHP runtime that keeps the normalizer instance alive across requests (FrankenPHP worker mode, RoadRunner, Swoole, ReactPHP, etc.). With classic php-fpm workers the cache only survives the duration of a single request, which makes the issue much harder to observe in practice.
Patches
- 4.1.29
- 4.2.25
- 4.3.8
All three branches receive patched releases of api-platform/core, api-platform/json-api, and api-platform/hal.
Workarounds
Override the JSON:API and HAL ItemNormalizer services to gate $context['cache_key'] with a resource-class security check, or avoid #[ApiProperty(secur
Details
Original advisory: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pjhx-3c3w-9v23
Exploitation outlook
EPSS (FIRST.org) estimates each CVE’s probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — here is the CSIRTS.com read on those numbers.
- Low exploitation riskCVE-2026-498580.20% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 10% of all scored CVEs.
Referenced CVEs
| CVE | CSIRTS overview | External |
|---|---|---|
| CVE-2026-49858 | coverage & exploitation status | NVD · CVE.org |
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