Improper Access Control in Cacti - CVE-2019-16723

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Improper Access Control in Cacti - CVE-2019-16723

Published: September 24, 2019 / Updated: May 19, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU21303
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 5.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-16723
CWE-ID: CWE-284
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to the system's authorization functionality does not prevent gaining access to user's data or record by modifying the key value identifying the data. A remote authenticated attacker can send a specially crafted request to the "graph_json.php" file with a modified "local_graph_id" parameter and view the graph data.

Affected software

Cacti
Gentoo Linux
Fedora
SUSE Linux
Opensuse
cacti (Debian package)
cacti
cacti-spine
SUSE Package Hub for SUSE Linux Enterprise

How to mitigate CVE-2019-16723

Install update from vendor's website.

cacti (Debian package) - addressed in versions 0.8.8h+ds1-10+deb9u1, 1.2.2+ds1-2+deb10u2
cacti - addressed in versions 1.2.8-1.el7, 1.2.8-1.el8, 1.2.8-1.fc30, 1.2.8-1.fc31
cacti-spine - addressed in versions 1.2.8-1.el7, 1.2.8-1.el8, 1.2.8-1.fc30, 1.2.8-1.fc31

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