Debian DSA-764-1 : cacti - several vulnerabilities

critical Nessus Plugin ID 19258

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in cacti, a round-robin database (RRD) tool that helps create graphs from database information. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Project identifies the following problems :

- CAN-2005-1524 Maciej Piotr Falkiewicz and an anonymous researcher discovered an input validation bug that allows an attacker to include arbitrary PHP code from remote sites which will allow the execution of arbitrary code on the server running cacti.

- CAN-2005-1525

Due to missing input validation cacti allows a remote attacker to insert arbitrary SQL statements.

- CAN-2005-1526

Maciej Piotr Falkiewicz discovered an input validation bug that allows an attacker to include arbitrary PHP code from remote sites which will allow the execution of arbitrary code on the server running cacti.

- CAN-2005-2148

Stefan Esser discovered that the update for the above mentioned vulnerabilities does not perform proper input validation to protect against common attacks.

- CAN-2005-2149

Stefan Esser discovered that the update for CAN-2005-1525 allows remote attackers to modify session information to gain privileges and disable the use of addslashes to protect against SQL injection.

Solution

Upgrade the cacti package.

For the old stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 0.6.7-2.5.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 0.8.6c-7sarge2.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 19258

File Name: debian_DSA-764.nasl

Version: 1.24

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 7/21/2005

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:cacti, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1

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: 7/21/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/22/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-1524, CVE-2005-1525, CVE-2005-1526, CVE-2005-2148, CVE-2005-2149

DSA: 764

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