Information disclosure in Cacti - CVE-2017-16661
Published: December 2, 2017 / Updated: December 7, 2017
Vulnerability identifier: #VU9569
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-16661
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote high-privileged attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to improper validation of user-supplied requests. A remote attacker can place the Log Path into a private directory, make a specially crafted clog.php?filename= request and read /etc/passwd.
Affected software
Cacti
Fedora
cacti
Fedora
cacti
How to mitigate CVE-2017-16661
Update to version 1.1.28.
cacti - addressed in versions 1.1.28-1.el7, 1.1.28-1.fc25, 1.1.28-1.fc26, 1.1.28-1.fc27