SB2020021023 - Fedora 31 update for cacti, cacti-spine
Published: February 10, 2020 Updated: April 25, 2025
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 2 vulnerabilities.
1) Stored cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-7106)
CWE-ID: CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data in the "description" parameter. A remote attacker can permanently inject 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.
This vulnerability affects the following files:
- data_sources.php
- color_templates_item.php
- graphs.php
- graph_items.php
- lib/api_automation.php
- user_admin.php
- user_group_admin.php
2) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-7237)
CWE-ID: CWE-20 - Improper input validation
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input in the Performance Boost Debug Log field of "poller_automation.php". A remote authenticated attacker can execute arbitrary code via shell metacharacters.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.