THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2005-2148
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2005-2148

Cacti vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
3.4%
EPSS pct
88th
Exploited
No known
Cacti 0.8.6e and earlier does not perform proper input validation to protect against common attacks, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands or SQL by sending a legitimate value in a POST request or cookie, then specifying the attack string in the URL, which causes the get_request_var function to return the wrong value in the $_REQUEST variable, which is cleansed while the original malicious $_GET value remains unmodified, as demonstrated in (1) graph_image.php and (2) graph.php.
Affected vendor
The Cacti Group
Affected product
Cacti
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Published
2005-07-06

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.4% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 88% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2005-2148

  • Confirm whether The Cacti Group Cacti is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2005-2148.
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