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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.5

CVE-2024-31460 json

Cacti SQL Injection vulnerability in lib/api_automation.php caused by reading dirty data stored in database

published 2024-05-13 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-29342

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.8%
EPSS 1.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 78%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Cacti provides an operational monitoring and fault management framework. Prior to version 1.2.27, some of the data stored in `automation_tree_rules.php` is not thoroughly checked and is used to concatenate the SQL statement in `create_all_header_nodes()` function from `lib/api_automation.php` , finally resulting in SQL injection. Using SQL based secondary injection technology, attackers can modify the contents of the Cacti database, and based on the modified content, it may be possible to achieve further impact, such as arbitrary file reading, and even remote code execution through arbitrary file writing. Version 1.2.27 contains a patch for the issue.

Patch / fix

  • Cacti cacti 1.2.27
  • cacti Debian 12 1.2.24+ds1-1+deb12u3
  • cacti Debian 14, Debian 13 1.2.27+ds1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-31460

  • cacti Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 1.2.10+ds1-1ubuntu1.1
  • cacti Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 1.2.19+ds1-2ubuntu1.1
  • cacti Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 1.2.26+ds1-1ubuntu0.1
  • cacti Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 1.1.38+ds1-1ubuntu0.1~esm3

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2024-31460

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-spine Package Hub 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 1.2.27-bp156.2.3.1
  • cacti Package Hub 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 1.2.27-bp156.2.3.1
  • cacti-spine Package Hub 15 SP5, Package Hub 12, openSUSE Leap 15.5 1.2.27-bp155.2.9.1
  • cacti Package Hub 15 SP5, Package Hub 12, openSUSE Leap 15.5 1.2.27-bp155.2.9.1
  • cacti openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.2.27-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:0276-1openSUSE-SU-2024:0274-1openSUSE-SU-2024:13962-1

  • cacti Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +3 more 1.2.27-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2024-31460

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-2024-31460 updated

cacti: multiple vulnerabilities

  • 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
total
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

1.79% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 78% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/security/advisories/GHSA-gj3f-p326-gh8r referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • github.com https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/security/advisories/GHSA-cx8g-hvq8-p2rv referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
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-89 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command

References

Sources

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