Cross-site scripting (XSS) in Cacti - CVE-2017-10970
Published: July 15, 2017 / Updated: July 16, 2017
Vulnerability identifier: #VU7542
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-2017-10970
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 link.php in Cacti 1.1.12 when processing the id parameter, related to the die_html_input_error function in lib/html_validate.php. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially 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
Fedora
cacti
Fedora
cacti
How to mitigate CVE-2017-10970
Install update from vendor's website.
cacti - addressed in versions 1.1.12-2.el6, 1.1.12-2.el7, 1.1.12-2.fc24, 1.1.12-2.fc25, 1.1.12-2.fc26