Cacti: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Updated March 10, 2008

1. Gentoo Linux Security Advisory

Advisory Reference	GLSA 200803-18 / cacti
Release Date	March 10, 2008
Latest Revision	May 28, 2009: 02
Impact	normal
Exploitable	remote

Package	Vulnerable versions	Unaffected versions	Architecture(s)
net-analyzer/cacti	< 0.8.7b	>= 0.8.7b, revision >= 0.8.6j-r8	All supported architectures

Related bugreports: #209918

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in Cacti.

2. Impact Information

Background

Cacti is a web-based network graphing and reporting tool.

Description

The following inputs are not properly sanitized before being processed:

"view_type" parameter in the file graph.php, "filter" parameter in the file graph_view.php, "action" and "login_username" parameters in the file index.php (CVE-2008-0783).
"local_graph_id" parameter in the file graph.php (CVE-2008-0784).
"graph_list" parameter in the file graph_view.php, "leaf_id" and "id" parameters in the file tree.php, "local_graph_id" in the file graph_xport.php (CVE-2008-0785).

Furthermore, CRLF injection attack are possible via unspecified vectors (CVE-2008-0786).

Impact

A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities, leading to path disclosure, Cross-Site Scripting attacks, SQL injection, and HTTP response splitting.

3. Resolution Information

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Cacti users should upgrade to the latest version:

Code Listing 3.1: Resolution

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-analyzer/cacti-0.8.7b"

4. References