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JVNDB-2009-003901

Cacti vulnerable to cross-site scripting

Overview

Cacti is a web application that graphs stored data collected from network devices. Cacti contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability (CWE-79) due to a flaw in processing parameters in graph_view.php.

Gaku Mochizuki of Mitsui Bussan Secure Directions, Inc. reported this vulnerability to IPA.
JPCERT/CC coordinated with the developer under Information Security Early Warning Partnership.
CVSS Severity (What is CVSS?)

CVSS V2 Severity:
Base Metrics 4.3 (Medium) [NVD Score]
  • Access Vector: Network
  • Access Complexity: Medium
  • Authentication: None
  • Confidentiality Impact: None
  • Integrity Impact: Partial
  • Availability Impact: None
Affected Products


The Cacti Group
  • Cacti 0.8.7e and earlier

Impact

If a user views a malicious page while logged in, an arbitrary script may be executed on the user's web browser.
Solution

[Update the software]
Update to the latest version according to the information provided by the developer.

According to the developer, this issue was addressed in 0.8.7f released in 2010.
Vendor Information

The Cacti Group
CWE (What is CWE?)

  1. Cross-site Scripting(CWE-79) [NVD Evaluation]
CVE (What is CVE?)

  1. CVE-2009-4032
References

  1. JVN : JVN#09758120
  2. National Vulnerability Database (NVD) : CVE-2009-4032
Revision History

  • [2015/07/09]
      Web page was published

Date Public2009/06/28
Date First Published2015/07/09
Date Last Updated2015/07/09