SCA: security update for smarty/smarty (GHSA-2pmx-6mm6-6v72)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 434757

Description

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)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2pmx-6mm6-6v72

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 434757

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-8350

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/22/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-8350

BID: 70708

cwe: CWE-94