Smarty before 3.1.21 allows remote attackers to bypass the secure mode restrictions and execute arbitrary PHP code as demonstrated by "{literal}<{/literal}script language=php>" in a template.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - Smarty before 3.1.21 allows remote attackers to bypass the secure mode restrictions and execute arbitrary
    PHP code as demonstrated by "{literal}<{/literal}script language=php>" in a template. (CVE-2014-8350)

Smarty3, a template engine for PHP, allowed remote attackers to bypass the secure mode restrictions and execute arbitrary PHP code as demonstrated by '{literal}<{/literal}script language=php>' in a template.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 3.1.10-2+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your smarty3 packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

An XSS vulnerability in the SmartyException class in Smarty (aka smarty-php) before 3.1.12 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors that trigger a Smarty exception (CVE-2012-4437).

Smarty before 3.1.21 allows remote attackers to bypass the secure mode restrictions and execute arbitrary PHP code as demonstrated by '<script language=php>' in a template (CVE-2014-8350).

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Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
434757	SCA: security update for smarty/smarty (GHSA-2pmx-6mm6-6v72)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	critical
434757	SCA: security update for smarty/smarty (GHSA-2pmx-6mm6-6v72)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	critical
90870	Debian DLA-452-1 : smarty3 security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
79408	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : php-smarty (MDVSA-2014:221)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	high
79070	Fedora 21 : php-Smarty-3.1.21-1.fc21 (2014-13618)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
78864	Fedora 20 : php-Smarty-3.1.21-1.fc20 (2014-13574)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
78863	Fedora 19 : php-Smarty-3.1.21-1.fc19 (2014-13570)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

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