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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.3

CVE-2020-13230 json

In Cacti before 1.2.11, disabling a user account does not immediately invalidate any permissions granted to that account (e.g., permission…

published 2020-05-20 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2020-5499

cvss
4.3
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.0%
EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 63%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In Cacti before 1.2.11, disabling a user account does not immediately invalidate any permissions granted to that account (e.g., permission to view logs).

Patch / fix

  • cacti cacti 1.2.11
  • cacti Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.2.11+ds1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2020-13230

  • cacti Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 0.8.8f+ds1-4ubuntu4.16.04.2+esm1
  • cacti Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 1.1.38+ds1-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
  • cacti Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS 1.2.10+ds1-1ubuntu1+esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2020-13230

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

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-2020-13230 updated cvss 4.3

cacti: improper access control on disabling a user

  • 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

1.00% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 63% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/issues/3343 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 4.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-281 Improper Preservation of Permissions

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.