EUVD-2025-200287
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Lifecycle Timeline
5Description
Cacti is an open source performance and fault management framework. Prior to 1.2.29, there is an input-validation flaw in the SNMP device configuration functionality. An authenticated Cacti user can supply crafted SNMP community strings containing control characters (including newlines) that are accepted, stored verbatim in the database, and later embedded into backend SNMP operations. In environments where downstream SNMP tooling or wrappers interpret newline-separated tokens as command boundaries, this can lead to unintended command execution with the privileges of the Cacti process. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.2.29.
Analysis
Cacti is an open source performance and fault management framework. Prior to 1.2.29, there is an input-validation flaw in the SNMP device configuration functionality. An authenticated Cacti user can supply crafted SNMP community strings containing control characters (including newlines) that are accepted, stored verbatim in the database, and later embedded into backend SNMP operations. In environments where downstream SNMP tooling or wrappers interpret newline-separated tokens as command boundaries, this can lead to unintended command execution with the privileges of the Cacti process. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.2.29.
Technical Context
Command injection allows an attacker to execute arbitrary OS commands on the host system through a vulnerable application that passes user input to system shells.
Affected Products
Affected products: Cacti Cacti
Remediation
Avoid passing user input to system commands. Use language-specific APIs instead of shell commands. If unavoidable, use strict input validation and escaping.
Priority Score
Vendor Status
Ubuntu
Priority: Medium| Release | Status | Version |
|---|---|---|
| noble | needs-triage | - |
| plucky | ignored | end of life, was needs-triage |
| questing | not-affected | 1.2.30+ds1-1ubuntu1 |
| upstream | released | 1.2.30+ds1-1 |
| trusty | needs-triage | - |
| xenial | needs-triage | - |
| bionic | needs-triage | - |
| focal | needs-triage | - |
| jammy | needs-triage | - |
Debian
| Release | Status | Fixed Version | Urgency |
|---|---|---|---|
| bullseye | vulnerable | 1.2.16+ds1-2+deb11u3 | - |
| bullseye (security) | vulnerable | 1.2.16+ds1-2+deb11u5 | - |
| bookworm, bookworm (security) | vulnerable | 1.2.24+ds1-1+deb12u5 | - |
| forky, trixie | fixed | 1.2.30+ds1-1 | - |
| sid | fixed | 1.2.30+ds1-2 | - |
| (unstable) | fixed | 1.2.30+ds1-1 | - |
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