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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.6

CVE-2023-39365 json

Unchecked regular expressions can lead to SQL Injection and data leakage in Cacti

published 2023-09-05 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2023-43090

cvss
4.6
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.9%
EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 58%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Cacti is an open source operational monitoring and fault management framework. Issues with Cacti Regular Expression validation combined with the external links feature can lead to limited SQL Injections and subsequent data leakage. This issue has been addressed in version 1.2.25. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Patch / fix

  • Cacti cacti 1.2.25
  • cacti Debian 12 1.2.24+ds1-1+deb12u1
  • cacti Debian 14, Debian 13 1.2.25+ds1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2023-39365

  • cacti openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.2.25-2.1
  • cacti-spine Package Hub 15 SP5, Package Hub 15 SP4, Package Hub 12 +2 more 1.2.25-bp155.2.3.1
  • cacti Package Hub 15 SP5, Package Hub 15 SP4, Package Hub 12 +2 more 1.2.25-bp155.2.3.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:13203-1openSUSE-SU-2023:0275-1

  • cacti Alpine 3.18 1.2.26-r0
  • cacti Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +3 more 1.2.25-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2023-39365

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org 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-2023-39365 updated cvss 4.6

cacti: SQL Injection when using regular expressions

  • 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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.85% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 58% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/security/advisories/GHSA-v5w7-hww7-2f22 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 4.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
NVD 3.1 6.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Affected products

  • Cacti cacti

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-89 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command

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.