Debian DLA-2069-1 : cacti security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 133102

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there were a number of cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in cacti, a web interface for monitoring systems.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this issue has been fixed in cacti version 0.8.8b+dfsg-8+deb8u9.

We recommend that you upgrade your cacti packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected cacti package.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00014.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/cacti

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 133102

File Name: debian_DLA-2069.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/21/2020

Updated: 3/29/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-7106

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:cacti

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/18/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/16/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-7106