Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
CVE-2024-35226
Summary
Smarty is a template engine for PHP, facilitating the separation of presentation (HTML/CSS) from application logic. In smarty/smarty versions 3.0.0 through 4.5.2, and 5.0.0-rc1 through 5.1.0, template authors could inject php code by choosing a malicious file name for an extends-tag. Sites that cannot fully trust template authors should be updated ASAP.
- LOW
- NETWORK
- HIGH
- UNCHANGED
- REQUIRED
- LOW
- HIGH
- NONE
CWE-94 - Code Injection
Code injection is a type of vulnerability that allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code. This vulnerability fully compromises the machine and can cause a wide variety of security issues, such as unauthorized access to sensitive information, manipulation of data, denial of service attacks etc. Code injection is different from command injection in the fact that it is limited by the functionality of the injected language (e.g. PHP), as opposed to command injection, which leverages existing code to execute commands, usually within the context of a shell.
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Advisory Timeline
- Published