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Fencer Vulns
high 8.1

CVE-2023-49084 in the critical feed json

Local File Inclusion (RCE) in Cacti

published 2023-12-21 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2023-53099

cvss
8.1
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
64.4%
EPSS 64.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.2%
public exploits
1
Metasploit

Summary

Cacti is a robust performance and fault management framework and a frontend to RRDTool - a Time Series Database (TSDB). While using the detected SQL Injection and insufficient processing of the include file path, it is possible to execute arbitrary code on the server. Exploitation of the vulnerability is possible for an authorized user. The vulnerable component is the `link.php`. Impact of the vulnerability execution of arbitrary code on the server.

Patch / fix

  • cacti Debian 12 1.2.24+ds1-1+deb12u2
  • cacti Debian 14, Debian 13 1.2.26+ds1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2023-49084

  • cacti openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.2.26-1.1
  • cacti-spine Package Hub 15 SP5, Package Hub 12, openSUSE Leap 15.5 1.2.26-bp155.2.6.1
  • cacti Package Hub 15 SP5, Package Hub 12, openSUSE Leap 15.5 1.2.26-bp155.2.6.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:13533-1openSUSE-SU-2024:0031-1

  • cacti Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +4 more 1.2.26-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2023-49084

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-2023-49084 updated cvss 8.0

cacti: RCE when managing links

  • 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

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/multi/http/cacti_pollers_sqli_rce)
  2. Published

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

64.45% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.2% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • Cacti cacti

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-98 Improper Control of Filename for Include/Require Statement in PHP Program

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.