CVE-2026-62996 PUBLISHED

Smarty Security stream restriction bypass through stream: resource

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 14.07.2026 Published: 07.08.2026 Updated: 07.08.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 6.9

Product Status

Vendor smarty-php
Product smarty
Versions
  • Version >= 5.0.0, < 5.8.4 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') CWE