CVE-2020-8813

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 74.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2020-02-22 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-78

Description

graph_realtime.php in Cacti 1.2.8 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary OS commands via shell metacharacters in a cookie, if a guest user has the graph real-time privilege.

Affected products

cacti: 1.2.8
Debian Linux: 10.0
Fedoraproject Fedora: 30, 31, 32
openSUSE Suse Package Hub: all versions
Opmantek Open-Audit: 3.3.1

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00042.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00048.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/156537/Cacti-1.2.8-Unauthenticated-Remote-Code-Execution.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/156538/Cacti-1.2.8-Authenticated-Remote-Code-Execution.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/156593/Cacti-1.2.8-Unauthenticated-Remote-Code-Execution.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157477/Open-AudIT-Professional-3.3.1-Remote-Code-Execution.html
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1A8hxTyk_NgSp04zPX-23nPbsSDeyDFio/view
https://gist.github.com/mhaskar/ebe6b74c32fd0f7e1eedf1aabfd44129
https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/issues/3285
https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/releases
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00039.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/M77SS33IDVNGBU566TK2XVULPW3RXUQ4/

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