Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting cacti package, versions <0.8.8b+dfsg-5ubuntu0.2


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.67% (76th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-CACTI-343867
  • published15 Nov 2017
  • disclosed15 Nov 2017

Introduced: 15 Nov 2017

CVE-2014-4000  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:14.04 cacti to version 0.8.8b+dfsg-5ubuntu0.2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream cacti package and not the cacti package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:14.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

Cacti before 1.0.0 allows remote authenticated users to conduct PHP object injection attacks and execute arbitrary PHP code via a crafted serialized object, related to calling unserialize(stripslashes()).