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SCA: security update for smarty/smarty (GHSA-65j5-vpm7-6xp4)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 434491

Description

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

 - Smarty before 3.1.33-dev-4 allows attackers to bypass the trusted_dir protection mechanism via a
 file:./../ substring in an include statement. (CVE-2018-16831)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-65j5-vpm7-6xp4

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 434491

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-16831

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/14/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/11/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-16831

cwe: CWE-22