Cross-site scripting in Cacti - CVE-2019-11025
Published: September 24, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU21304
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-11025
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
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.
Affected software
Cacti
Fedora
cacti
cacti-spine
Fedora
cacti
cacti-spine
How to mitigate CVE-2019-11025
Install updates from vendor's website.
Cacti - update to 1.2.3
cacti - update to 1.2.3-1.el7
cacti-spine - update to 1.2.3-1.el7
cacti - update to 1.2.3-1.el7
cacti-spine - update to 1.2.3-1.el7