CVE-2026-62996

Smarty is a template engine for PHP, facilitating the separation of presentation (HTML/CSS) from application logic. From 5.0.0 until 5.8.4, Smarty's stream: resource-name handling does not adequately restrict which PHP stream wrappers and filter chains can be referenced from a template, allowing a php://filter-wrapped resource name to be used to read the contents of arbitrary local files accessible to the PHP process. An attacker able to author or influence a template's resource reference could exploit this to disclose sensitive file contents outside the intended template/config scope. This issue is fixed in version 5.8.4.

CVSS

No CVSS.

References

Link	Resource
https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/commit/3c9f77a2e06ce319ae0092496af32cc8f3adc52e
https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/pull/1195
https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/releases/tag/v5.8.4
https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/security/advisories/GHSA-rjhh-76wf-8xmw
https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/security/advisories/GHSA-rjhh-76wf-8xmw

Configurations

No configuration.

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2026-08-07 16:17

Updated : 2026-09-09 21:02

NVD link : CVE-2026-62996

Mitre link : CVE-2026-62996

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-62996

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Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-22

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

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