Vulnerability in smarty/smarty (CVE-2021-29454)
Summary
Vulnerability in smarty/smarty (CVE-2021-29454). Confidential information can be exposed externally. Mitigation: upgrade to 4.0.2 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
Impact
Template authors could run arbitrary PHP code by crafting a malicious math string.
If a math string is passed through as user provided data to the math function, external users could run arbitrary PHP code by crafting a malicious math string.
Patches
Please upgrade to 4.0.2 or 3.1.42 or higher.
References
See documentation on Math function.
For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory please open an issue in the Smarty repo
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD GitHub Advisory OSV
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2021-29454 has been found in smarty/smarty.
Confidential information can be exposed externally.
What to do: upgrade smarty/smarty to 4.0.2 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "smarty/smarty CVE-2021-29454" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2021-29454 (smarty/smarty) — CWE-74
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated
Patched: 4.0.2 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-74) exists in smarty/smarty.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of smarty/smarty.
Severity: ?. Confidential information can be exposed externally.
Update to 4.0.2.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'smarty/smarty' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'smarty/smarty' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
smarty/smartyを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade smarty/smarty to 4.0.2ステージング環境で 4.0.2 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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3Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2021-29454 smarty3 Fixed in: 3.1.45-1
References
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- package github.com
- web lists.fedoraproject.org
- web lists.fedoraproject.org
- web github.com
- web github.com
- web github.com
- web lists.debian.org
- web packagist.org
- web security.gentoo.org
- web debian.org
- web smarty.net
- web github.com
- web github.com
- web lists.fedoraproject.org
- web lists.fedoraproject.org