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CVE-2005-2148

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2005-07-06 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Cacti 0.8.6e and earlier does not perform proper input validation to protect against common attacks, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands or SQL by sending a legitimate value in a POST request or cookie, then specifying the attack string in the URL, which causes the get_request_var function to return the wrong value in the $_REQUEST variable, which is cleansed while the original malicious $_GET value remains unmodified, as demonstrated in (1) graph_image.php and (2) graph.php.

Affected products

• The Cacti Group Cacti: 0.8, 0.8.1, 0.8.2, 0.8.2a, 0.8.3, 0.8.3a (+9)

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/15490
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1014361
• http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=10360&max_rows=25&style=flat&viewmonth=200507&viewday=1
• http://www.cacti.net/downloads/patches/0.8.6e/cacti-0.8.6f_security.patch
• http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-764
• http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory-032005.php
• http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory-042005.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/404047/30/30/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/404054
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14128
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14129
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0951

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