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CVE-2020-7237

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 37.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-01-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-78

Description

Cacti 1.2.8 allows Remote Code Execution (by privileged users) via shell metacharacters in the Performance Boost Debug Log field of poller_automation.php. OS commands are executed when a new poller cycle begins. The attacker must be authenticated, and must have access to modify the Performance Settings of the product.

Affected products

• cacti: 1.2.8

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00001.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00005.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00042.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00048.html
• https://ctrsec.io/index.php/2020/01/25/cve-2020-7237-remote-code-execution-in-cacti-rrdtool/
• https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/issues/3201
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SUSOTOIEJKD2IWJHN7TY56TDZJQZJUVJ/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XLZAMGTW2OSIBLYLXWHQBGWP7M4DTRS7/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-40
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00001.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00005.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00042.html

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