SQL injection in Cacti - CVE-2015-4342

 

SQL injection in Cacti - CVE-2015-4342

Published: June 17, 2015 / Updated: July 28, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU32418
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-4342
CWE-ID: CWE-89
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary SQL queries in database.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted request to the affected application and execute arbitrary SQL commands within the application database.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to read, delete, modify data in database and gain complete control over the affected application.


Affected software

Cacti
Amazon Linux AMI
Fedora
cacti (Alpine package)
cacti

How to mitigate CVE-2015-4342

Update to version 0.8.8d.

Cacti - update to 0.8.8d
cacti (Alpine package) - update to 0.8.8d-r0
cacti - addressed in versions 0.8.8g-1.fc22, 0.8.8g-1.fc23, 0.8.8g-1.fc24

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