Cross-site scripting in Cacti and Opensuse - CVE-2013-5588
Published: August 29, 2013 / Updated: August 10, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU42616
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-5588
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
Vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform Cross-site scripting attacks.
An input validation error exists in Cacti 0.8.8b and earlier when processing (1) the step parameter to install/index.php or (2) the id parameter to cacti/host.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
Cacti
Opensuse
Amazon Linux AMI
Fedora
cacti
Opensuse
Amazon Linux AMI
Fedora
cacti
How to mitigate CVE-2013-5588
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.
cacti - addressed in versions 0.8.8b-2.el5, 0.8.8b-2.el6