Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2747-1 cacti -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:
31 Aug 2013
Affected Packages:
cacti
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2013-5588, CVE-2013-5589.
More information:

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in Cacti, a web interface for graphing of monitoring systems:

  • CVE-2013-5588

    install/index.php and cacti/host.php suffered from Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities.

  • CVE-2013-5589

    cacti/host.php contained an SQL injection vulnerability, allowing an attacker to execute SQL code on the database used by Cacti.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 0.8.7g-1+squeeze3.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 0.8.8a+dfsg-5+deb7u2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 0.8.8b+dfsg-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your cacti packages.