CVE-2023-49084: Local File Inclusion (RCE) in Cacti

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 64.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2023-12-21 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-98

Description

Cacti is a robust performance and fault management framework and a frontend to RRDTool - a Time Series Database (TSDB). While using the detected SQL Injection and insufficient processing of the include file path, it is possible to execute arbitrary code on the server. Exploitation of the vulnerability is possible for an authorized user. The vulnerable component is the `link.php`. Impact of the vulnerability execution of arbitrary code on the server.

Affected products

cacti: 1.2.25

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/176995/Cacti-pollers.php-SQL-Injection-Remote-Code-Execution.html
https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/security/advisories/GHSA-pfh9-gwm6-86vp
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/03/msg00018.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RBEOAFKRARQHTDIYSL723XAFJ2Q6624X/
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/176995/Cacti-pollers.php-SQL-Injection-Remote-Code-Execution.html
https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/security/advisories/GHSA-pfh9-gwm6-86vp
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/03/msg00018.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RBEOAFKRARQHTDIYSL723XAFJ2Q6624X/

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