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high 8.8

CVE-2025-24367 in the critical feed json

Cacti allows Arbitrary File Creation leading to RCE

published 2025-01-27 21 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2025-3681

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
58.8%
EPSS 58.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.1%
public exploits
1
Metasploit

Summary

Cacti is an open source performance and fault management framework. An authenticated Cacti user can abuse graph creation and graph template functionality to create arbitrary PHP scripts in the web root of the application, leading to remote code execution on the server. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.2.29.

Patch / fix

  • cacti Debian 12 1.2.24+ds1-1+deb12u5
  • cacti Debian 14, Debian 13 1.2.28+ds1-4

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-24367

  • cacti Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +1 more 1.2.29-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2025-24367

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-2025-24367 updated cvss 8.8

cacti: Cacti allows Arbitrary File Creation leading to RCE

  • 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_graph_template_rce)
  2. Published

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
21 mo ago

Exploit prediction

58.85% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.1% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 8.7 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA 4.0 8.7 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
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-144 Improper Neutralization of Line Delimiters

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.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.