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Fencer Vulns
high 8.1

CVE-2019-17358 json

Cacti through 1.2.7 is affected by multiple instances of lib/functions.php unsafe deserialization of user-controlled data to populate array…

published 2019-12-12 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-7768

cvss
8.1
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.0%
EPSS 3.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 87%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Cacti through 1.2.7 is affected by multiple instances of lib/functions.php unsafe deserialization of user-controlled data to populate arrays. An authenticated attacker could use this to influence object data values and control actions taken by Cacti or potentially cause memory corruption in the PHP module.

Patch / fix

  • cacti Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.2.8+ds1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-17358

  • cacti Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 0.8.8b+dfsg-5ubuntu0.2+esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2019-17358

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • cacti openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.2.18-1.2
  • cacti-spine Package Hub 15 SP1 1.2.11-bp151.4.6.1
  • cacti Package Hub 15 SP1 1.2.11-bp151.4.6.1
  • cacti-spine Package Hub 12, openSUSE Leap 15.1 1.2.11-2.1
  • cacti Package Hub 12, openSUSE Leap 15.1 1.2.11-5.1
  • cacti-spine Package Hub 15 SP1 1.2.9-bp151.4.3.1
  • cacti Package Hub 15 SP1 1.2.9-bp151.4.3.1
  • cacti-spine openSUSE Leap 15.1 1.2.9-lp151.3.3.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10670-1openSUSE-SU-2020:0565-1openSUSE-SU-2020:0558-1openSUSE-SU-2020:0284-1openSUSE-SU-2020:0272-1

  • cacti Alpine 3.11, Alpine 3.10 1.2.8-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2019-17358

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2019-17358 updated cvss 8.1

cacti: unsafe deserialization of user-controlled data

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.03% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/blob/79f29cddb5eb05cbaff486cd634285ef1fed9326/lib/functions.php#L3109 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data
  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.