Cross-site scripting in Cacti - CVE-2020-14424
Published: July 5, 2021
Vulnerability identifier: #VU54525
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-14424
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data within the template import feature in midwinter theme. A remote attacker can execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in 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
Fedora
cacti
cacti-spine
Fedora
cacti
cacti-spine
How to mitigate CVE-2020-14424
Install updates from vendor's website.
Cacti - update to 1.2.18
cacti - addressed in versions 1.2.19-1.el7, 1.2.19-1.el8, 1.2.19-1.fc33, 1.2.19-1.fc34, 1.2.19-1.fc35
cacti-spine - addressed in versions 1.2.19-1.el7, 1.2.19-1.el8, 1.2.19-1.fc33, 1.2.19-1.fc34, 1.2.19-1.fc35
cacti - addressed in versions 1.2.19-1.el7, 1.2.19-1.el8, 1.2.19-1.fc33, 1.2.19-1.fc34, 1.2.19-1.fc35
cacti-spine - addressed in versions 1.2.19-1.el7, 1.2.19-1.el8, 1.2.19-1.fc33, 1.2.19-1.fc34, 1.2.19-1.fc35