What is CVE-2020-10375?

CVE-2020-10375 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Newmediacompany Smarty, classified under Inadequate Encryption Strength. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2021-02-05.

How severe is CVE-2020-10375?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Newmediacompany Smarty

CVE-2020-10375

An issue was discovered in New Media Smarty before 9.10. Passwords are stored in the database in an obfuscated format that can be easily reversed. The file data.mdb contains these obfuscated passwords in the second column. NOTE: this is unrelated to the popular Smarty template engine product.

Published 2021-02-05 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (21.2th percentile), scored 2026-10-01.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 21st percentile — 21.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Newmediacompany Smarty

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-326 — Inadequate Encryption Strength

References

www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2020-005-smarty/ (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
www.smarty-online.de (Product)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-10375?: CVE-2020-10375 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Newmediacompany Smarty, classified under Inadequate Encryption Strength. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2021-02-05.
How severe is CVE-2020-10375?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.