CVE-2016-3172

high

Published 2016-04-12 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

8.8

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.8

Description

SQL injection vulnerability in tree.php in Cacti 0.8.8g and earlier allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the parent_id parameter in an item_edit action.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

92%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`0.8.8g+ds1-2`
sid	Fixed	`0.8.8g+ds1-2`
forky	Fixed	`0.8.8g+ds1-2`
bullseye	Fixed	`0.8.8g+ds1-2`
bookworm	Fixed	`0.8.8g+ds1-2`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
cacti	cacti	`{"endIncluding":"0.8.8g"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-89

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.