SQL injection in Cacti - CVE-2016-3659

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SQL injection in Cacti - CVE-2016-3659

Published: April 11, 2016 / Updated: August 3, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU33277
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 8.7 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-3659
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 passed via the host_group_data parameter. 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-2016-3659

Update to version 0.8.8a.

Cacti - update to 0.8.8a
cacti (Alpine package) - update to 0.8.8g-r0
cacti - addressed in versions 0.8.8h-1.el6, 0.8.8h-1.el7, 0.8.8h-1.fc22, 0.8.8h-1.fc23, 0.8.8h-1.fc24

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