Cross-site scripting in Cacti - CVE-2018-20723

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Cross-site scripting in Cacti - CVE-2018-20723

Published: January 16, 2019 / Updated: August 8, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU36232
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 4.8 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-20723
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote privileged user to read and manipulate data.

A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in color_templates.php in Cacti before 1.2.0 due to lack of escaping of unintended characters in the Name field for a Color.


Affected software

Cacti
Fedora
SUSE Linux
Opensuse
SUSE Package Hub for SUSE Linux Enterprise
cacti
cacti-spine

How to mitigate CVE-2018-20723

Install update from vendor's website.

Cacti - update to 1.2.0
cacti - addressed in versions 1.2.0-1.el7, 1.2.2-1.el7
cacti-spine - addressed in versions 1.2.0-2.el7, 1.2.2-1.el7

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