SB2019040916 - Cross-site scripting in Cacti

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SB2019040916 - Cross-site scripting in Cacti

Published: April 9, 2019 Updated: September 24, 2019

Security Bulletin ID SB2019040916
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Data manipulation

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.


1) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-11025)

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists in "clearFilter()" in "utilities.php" due to no escaping occurs before printing out the value of the SNMP community string (SNMP Options) in the View poller cache. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References