CVE-2023-49084

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

1.0

Description

Cacti is a robust performance and fault management framework and a frontend to RRDTool - a Time Series Database (TSDB). While using the detected SQL Injection and insufficient processing of the include file path, it is possible to execute arbitrary code on the server. Exploitation of the vulnerability is possible for an authorized user. The vulnerable component is the `link.php`. Impact of the vulnerability execution of arbitrary code on the server.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Metasploit modules

exploit_multi/http/cacti_pollers_sqli_rce rank 600

Cacti RCE via SQLi in pollers.php

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OS impact

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`1.2.26+ds1-1`
sid	Fixed	`1.2.26+ds1-1`
forky	Fixed	`1.2.26+ds1-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`1.2.16+ds1-2+deb11u3`
bookworm	Fixed	`1.2.24+ds1-1+deb12u2`

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-49084

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

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