CVE-2014-5261

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 10.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-08-22 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

The graph settings script (graph_settings.php) in Cacti 0.8.8b and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a font size, related to the rrdtool commandline in lib/rrd.php.

Affected products

cacti: through 0.8.8b; 0.8.6e, 0.8.7, 0.8.7a, 0.8.7b, 0.8.7c, 0.8.7d (+6)

References

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/351
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/386
http://svn.cacti.net/viewvc?view=rev&revision=7454
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3007
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69213
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1127165
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95292
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-05
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/351
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/386
http://svn.cacti.net/viewvc?view=rev&revision=7454
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3007

Get alerted when CVE-2014-5261 or the next vulnerability affects your stack