GHSA-f6wf-28g6-769x: smarty/smarty (CVE-2026-62992)

Package	Ecosystem	Affected	Fixed in
smarty/smarty	Packagist	>=5.0.0, <5.8.2 \|\| <4.5.7	5.8.2, 4.5.7

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

Smarty versions below 4.5.7, and from 5.0.0 up to but not including 5.8.2, are vulnerable when the Security policy is enabled. A symlink inside a trusted directory can pass the path check, letting a template read arbitrary files outside the secure directory. An attacker would need to create such a symlink and get a template to reference it, and could then read files the PHP process can access. Upgrade to 4.5.7 or 5.8.2. Workaround: prevent untrusted users from creating symlinks in trusted template directories.

Written 3 Nov 2026.

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
6.9	Medium	4.0	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	CNA (GitHub_M)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0053, the 45th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

31 Oct 2026, 14:24 UTC First seen by agentprime
31 Oct 2026, 14:24 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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