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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : Smarty vulnerabilities (USN-5348-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 159268

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5348-1 advisory.

 David Gnedt and Thomas Konrad discovered that Smarty was incorrectly sanitizing the paths present in the templates. An attacker could possibly use this use to read arbitrary files when controlling the executed template. (CVE-2018-13982)

 It was discovered that Smarty was incorrectly sanitizing the paths present in the templates. An attacker could possibly use this use to read arbitrary files when controlling the executed template.
 (CVE-2018-16831)

 It was discovered that Smarty was incorrectly validating security policy data, allowing the execution of static classes even when not permitted by the security settings. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-21408)

 It was discovered that Smarty was incorrectly managing access control to template objects, which allowed users to perform a sandbox escape. An attacker could possibly use this issue to send specially crafted input to applications that use Smarty and execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-26119)

 It was discovered that Smarty was not checking for special characters when setting function names during plugin compile operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to send specially crafted input to applications that use Smarty and execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-26120)

 It was discovered that Smarty was incorrectly sanitizing characters in math strings processed by the math function. An attacker could possibly use this issue to send specially crafted input to applications that use Smarty and execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-29454)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected smarty3 package.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5348-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 159268

File Name: ubuntu_USN-5348-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/28/2022

Updated: 8/27/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-26120

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:smarty3

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/28/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/11/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-13982, CVE-2018-16831, CVE-2021-21408, CVE-2021-26119, CVE-2021-26120, CVE-2021-29454

USN: 5348-1