THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2014-5261
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2014-5261

Cacti vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
10.8%
EPSS pct
95th
Exploited
No known
The graph settings script (graph_settings.php) in Cacti 0.8.8b and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a font size, related to the rrdtool commandline in lib/rrd.php.
Affected vendor
Cacti
Affected product
Cacti
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2014-08-22

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 10.8% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

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  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2014-5261.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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