CVE-2025-24367: Cacti allows Arbitrary File Creation leading to RCE

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 54.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2025-01-27 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-144

Description

Cacti is an open source performance and fault management framework. An authenticated Cacti user can abuse graph creation and graph template functionality to create arbitrary PHP scripts in the web root of the application, leading to remote code execution on the server. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.2.29.

Affected products

cacti: before 1.2.29 — fixed in 1.2.29

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: cacti 1.2.29. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/commit/c7e4ee798d263a3209ae6e7ba182c7b65284d8f0
https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/security/advisories/GHSA-fxrq-fr7h-9rqq
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/02/msg00010.html
https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/security/advisories/GHSA-fxrq-fr7h-9rqq

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