Cross-site scripting in Cacti - CVE-2019-11025

 

Cross-site scripting in Cacti - CVE-2019-11025

Published: September 24, 2019


Vulnerability identifier: #VU21304
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-11025
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: The Cacti Group, Inc.
Affected software:
Cacti

Detailed vulnerability description

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.


How to mitigate CVE-2019-11025

Install updates from vendor's website.

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