USN-5214-1: Cacti vulnerabilities

9 June 2022

Several security issues were fixed in Cacti.

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Releases

Packages

  • cacti - web interface for graphing of monitoring systems

Details

It was discovered that Cacti was incorrectly validating permissions
for user accounts that had been recently disabled. An authenticated
attacker could possibly use this to obtain unauthorized access to
application and system data. (CVE-2020-13230)

It was discovered that Cacti was incorrectly performing authorization
checks in auth_profile.php. A remote unauthenticated attacker could
use this to perform a CSRF attack and set a new admin email or make
other changes. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 ESM and
Ubuntu 20.04 ESM. (CVE-2020-13231)

It was discovered that Cacti incorrectly handled user provided input
sent through request parameters to the color.php script. A remote
authenticated attacker could use this issue to perform SQL injection
attacks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 ESM and Ubuntu 20.04 ESM.
(CVE-2020-14295)

It was discovered that Cacti did not properly escape file input fields
when performing template import operations for various themes. An
authenticated attacker could use this to perform XSS attacks. This issue
only affected Ubuntu 18.04 ESM and Ubuntu 20.04 ESM. (CVE-2020-14424)

It was discovered that Cacti incorrectly handled user provided input
sent through request parameters to the data_debug.php script. A remote
authenticated attacker could use this issue to perform SQL injection
attacks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 ESM. (CVE-2020-35701)

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 16.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.