8.8
HIGH CVSS 3.1
CVE-2022-29221
Smarty PHP Template Injection Vulnerability
Description

Smarty is a template engine for PHP, facilitating the separation of presentation (HTML/CSS) from application logic. Prior to versions 3.1.45 and 4.1.1, template authors could inject php code by choosing a malicious {block} name or {include} file name. Sites that cannot fully trust template authors should upgrade to versions 3.1.45 or 4.1.1 to receive a patch for this issue. There are currently no known workarounds.

INFO

Published Date :

May 24, 2022, 3:15 p.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 21, 2024, 6:58 a.m.

Remotely Exploit :

Yes !

Source :

[email protected]
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2022-29221 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Fedoraproject fedora
1 Debian debian_linux
1 Smarty smarty
: Total Affected Vendor : 3 | Products : 3
CVSS Scores
The Common Vulnerability Scoring System is a standardized framework for assessing the severity of vulnerabilities in software and systems. We collect and displays CVSS scores from various sources for each CVE.
Score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Source
CVSS 2.0 MEDIUM [email protected]
CVSS 3.1 HIGH [email protected]
CVSS 3.1 HIGH [email protected]
Solution
The Smarty PHP template engine is vulnerable to template injection; upgrading to a patched version is recommended.
  • Update Smarty to version 3.1.45 or 4.1.1 or later.
  • If using Debian 9, upgrade smarty3 to version 3.1.31+20161214.1.c7d42e4+selfpack1-2+deb9u6 or later.
  • If using Debian 11, upgrade smarty3 to version 3.1.39-2+deb11u1 or later.
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github

CVE-2022-29221 has a 6 public PoC/Exploit available at Github. Go to the Public Exploits tab to see the list.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information, practical solutions, and valuable tools related to CVE-2022-29221.

URL Resource
https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/commit/64ad6442ca1da31cefdab5c9874262b702cccddd Patch Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/releases/tag/v3.1.45 Release Notes Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/releases/tag/v4.1.1 Release Notes Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/security/advisories/GHSA-634x-pc3q-cf4c Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00044.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BRAJVDRGCIY5UZ2PQHKDTT7RMKG6WJQQ/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/L777JIBIWJV34HS7LXPIDWASG7TT4LNI/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202209-09 Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5151 Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/commit/64ad6442ca1da31cefdab5c9874262b702cccddd Patch Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/releases/tag/v3.1.45 Release Notes Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/releases/tag/v4.1.1 Release Notes Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/security/advisories/GHSA-634x-pc3q-cf4c Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00044.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BRAJVDRGCIY5UZ2PQHKDTT7RMKG6WJQQ/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/L777JIBIWJV34HS7LXPIDWASG7TT4LNI/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202209-09 Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5151 Third Party Advisory
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

While CVE identifies specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2022-29221 is associated with the following CWEs:

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC) stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2022-29221 weaknesses.

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

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NaInSec/CVE-PoC-in-GitHub

All CVE - PoC in GitHub

poc proofofconcept tester allcve cvegithub cvenew cvepoc cveupdate

Updated: 2 months, 2 weeks ago
12 stars 3 fork 3 watcher
Born at : March 22, 2024, 3:58 p.m. This repo has been linked 931 different CVEs too.
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zecool/cve

None

Updated: 1 month, 4 weeks ago
2 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : March 11, 2024, 1:21 p.m. This repo has been linked 935 different CVEs too.
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whoforget/CVE-POC

None

Updated: 2 years, 4 months ago
0 stars 2 fork 2 watcher
Born at : April 8, 2023, 6:19 a.m. This repo has been linked 928 different CVEs too.
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k0mi-tg/CVE-POC

None

Updated: 1 year, 6 months ago
20 stars 3 fork 3 watcher
Born at : Feb. 14, 2023, 6:10 p.m. This repo has been linked 921 different CVEs too.
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WhooAmii/POC_to_review

None

Updated: 3 months ago
2 stars 2 fork 2 watcher
Born at : Nov. 25, 2022, 5:43 p.m. This repo has been linked 935 different CVEs too.
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sbani/CVE-2022-29221-PoC

CVE-2022-29221 Proof of Concept Code - Smarty RCE

PHP Smarty

Updated: 7 months ago
16 stars 3 fork 3 watcher
Born at : May 25, 2022, 6:02 a.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.

Results are limited to the first 15 repositories due to potential performance issues.

The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2022-29221 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

Results are limited to the first 20 news articles due to potential performance issues.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2022-29221 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

    Nov. 21, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/commit/64ad6442ca1da31cefdab5c9874262b702cccddd
    Added Reference https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/releases/tag/v3.1.45
    Added Reference https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/releases/tag/v4.1.1
    Added Reference https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/security/advisories/GHSA-634x-pc3q-cf4c
    Added Reference https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00044.html
    Added Reference https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BRAJVDRGCIY5UZ2PQHKDTT7RMKG6WJQQ/
    Added Reference https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/L777JIBIWJV34HS7LXPIDWASG7TT4LNI/
    Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202209-09
    Added Reference https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5151
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Nov. 07, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference GitHub, Inc. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/L777JIBIWJV34HS7LXPIDWASG7TT4LNI/ [No types assigned]
    Added Reference GitHub, Inc. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BRAJVDRGCIY5UZ2PQHKDTT7RMKG6WJQQ/ [No types assigned]
    Removed Reference GitHub, Inc. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/L777JIBIWJV34HS7LXPIDWASG7TT4LNI/
    Removed Reference GitHub, Inc. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/BRAJVDRGCIY5UZ2PQHKDTT7RMKG6WJQQ/
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Dec. 08, 2022

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Reference Type https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/BRAJVDRGCIY5UZ2PQHKDTT7RMKG6WJQQ/ No Types Assigned https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/BRAJVDRGCIY5UZ2PQHKDTT7RMKG6WJQQ/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
    Changed CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:36:*:*:*:*:*:*:* OR *cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:36:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:37:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Nov. 14, 2022

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/BRAJVDRGCIY5UZ2PQHKDTT7RMKG6WJQQ/ [No Types Assigned]
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Oct. 28, 2022

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Reference Type https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/L777JIBIWJV34HS7LXPIDWASG7TT4LNI/ No Types Assigned https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/L777JIBIWJV34HS7LXPIDWASG7TT4LNI/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202209-09 No Types Assigned https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202209-09 Third Party Advisory
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:36:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Oct. 24, 2022

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/L777JIBIWJV34HS7LXPIDWASG7TT4LNI/ [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Sep. 25, 2022

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202209-09 [No Types Assigned]
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Jun. 06, 2022

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V2 NIST (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
    Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    Changed Reference Type https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/commit/64ad6442ca1da31cefdab5c9874262b702cccddd No Types Assigned https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/commit/64ad6442ca1da31cefdab5c9874262b702cccddd Patch, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/releases/tag/v3.1.45 No Types Assigned https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/releases/tag/v3.1.45 Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/releases/tag/v4.1.1 No Types Assigned https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/releases/tag/v4.1.1 Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/security/advisories/GHSA-634x-pc3q-cf4c No Types Assigned https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/security/advisories/GHSA-634x-pc3q-cf4c Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00044.html No Types Assigned https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00044.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5151 No Types Assigned https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5151 Third Party Advisory
    Added CWE NIST CWE-94
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:smarty:smarty:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 3.1.45 *cpe:2.3:a:smarty:smarty:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 4.0.0 up to (excluding) 4.1.1
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jun. 02, 2022

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5151 [No Types Assigned]
    Added Reference https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00044.html [No Types Assigned]
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
Vulnerability Scoring Details
Base CVSS Score: 8.8
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality Impact
Integrity Impact
Availability Impact
Base CVSS Score: 6.5
Access Vector
Access Complexity
Authentication
Confidentiality Impact
Integrity Impact
Availability Impact
Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

25.65 }} 2.08%

score

0.95945

percentile