CVE-2006-6799

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-12-28 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

SQL injection vulnerability in Cacti 0.8.6i and earlier, when register_argc_argv is enabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the (1) second or (2) third arguments to cmd.php. NOTE: this issue can be leveraged to execute arbitrary commands since the SQL query results are later used in the polling_items array and popen function.

Affected products

The Cacti Group Cacti: through 0.8.6i

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/23528
http://secunia.com/advisories/23665
http://secunia.com/advisories/23917
http://secunia.com/advisories/23941
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-23.xml
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017451
http://www.cacti.net/release_notes_0_8_6j.php
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1250
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:015
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_07_cacti.html
http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.001.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/457290/100/0/threaded

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