Cross-site scripting in Cacti and Opensuse - CVE-2014-4002
Published: July 3, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020
Vulnerability details
Vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform XSS attacks.
The vulnerability is caused by an input validation error in Cacti 0.8.8b when processing the (1) drp_action parameter to cdef.php, (2) data_input.php, (3) data_queries.php, (4) data_sources.php, (5) data_templates.php, (6) graph_templates.php, (7) graphs.php, (8) host.php, or (9) host_templates.php or the (10) graph_template_input_id or (11) graph_template_id parameter to graph_templates_inputs.php. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in victim's browser in security 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
Opensuse
Amazon Linux AMI
Fedora
cacti
How to mitigate CVE-2014-4002
External References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00034.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59203
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59517
- http://svn.cacti.net/viewvc?view=rev&revision=7451
- http://svn.cacti.net/viewvc?view=rev&revision=7452
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2970
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68257
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201509-03