Intel

AIKIDO-2026-10890

symfony/rate-limiter is vulnerable to Rate Limit Bypass

Rate Limit Bypass Pre-CVE
Found by Aikido Intel before public disclosure or CVE publication.
Published May 21, 2026

26

Low Risk

This Affects:

PHPsymfony/rate-limiter
5.2.0 - 6.4.36
Fixed in 6.4.37
7.0.0 - 7.4.8
Fixed in 7.4.9
8.0.0 - 8.0.8
Fixed in 8.0.9
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TL;DR

The token-bucket limiter does not keep reserved-token debt alive long enough in storage. After the old expiration time passes, a limiter can recreate a full bucket and forget tokens already reserved for future windows. Pre-fix applications that use reserve() can allow more actions than the configured rate limit intends. The fix extends bucket expiration to cover outstanding reservation debt.

Who does this affect?

You are affected if you are using a version that falls within the vulnerable range.

Background info

symfony/rate-limiter is vulnerable to Rate Limit Bypass in versions 5.2.0 - 6.4.36, 7.0.0 - 7.4.8 and 8.0.0 - 8.0.8.

How to fix this

Upgrade the symfony/rate-limiter and/or symfony/symfony library to the patch version.