USN-6720-1: Cacti vulnerability
Publication date
2 April 2024
Overview
Cacti could be made to crash if it received specially crafted input.
Releases
Packages
- cacti - web interface for graphing of monitoring systems
Details
Kentaro Kawane discovered that Cacti incorrectly handled user provided
input sent through request parameters to the graph_view.php script.
A remote authenticated attacker could use this issue to perform
SQL injection attacks.
Kentaro Kawane discovered that Cacti incorrectly handled user provided
input sent through request parameters to the graph_view.php script.
A remote authenticated attacker could use this issue to perform
SQL injection attacks.
Update instructions
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
Learn more about how to get the fixes.The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
| Ubuntu Release | Package Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 22.04 jammy | cacti – 1.2.19+ds1-2ubuntu1+esm1 | ||
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